00:00Nepal is set to receive $20 million from the UN's Climate Loss and Damage Fund
00:06to help address the devastation caused by August's flooding.
00:09The assistance, however, covers less than 1% of Nepal's estimated reconstruction needs,
00:16with preliminary figures putting the cost at more than $4.7 billion.
00:21The flood struck along Nepal's border with China's Tibet region
00:25and killed about 1,500 people with thousands more missing.
00:30The flood damaged roads, bridges and schools, as well as 13 hydropower plants.
00:36Nepal had requested support from the fund for responding to loss and damage
00:40less than a week after the flood struck.
00:43Following the disaster, Nepal has also pushed for global climate justice,
00:48highlighting how it contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions
00:54yet faces devastating climate-related destruction.
01:00The international community.
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