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Este desastre me atingiu de forma pessoal. A vila do meu marido foi destruída, seus parentes escaparam por pouco da inundação.
Há mais de sete anos, trabalho em defesa do clima. Participei de reuniões de políticas, escrevi relatórios sobre risco glacial e falei em painéis sobre a vulnerabilidade particular das comunidades do Himalaia.
I thought I understood what was at stake. I was wrong. The horror and despair I have seen in affected communities are hard to describe.
What is worse is that the threat is far from over. Preliminary scientific evidence indicates that a massive ice-and-rock collapse in the high Himalayas triggered a cascading event in the Lhende Khola, sending a sudden surge of water, rock and sediment into the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli river system.
As a result of this movement, a lake has formed near the Nepal-Tibet border and may yet cause a second flood.
Embora o Nepal não pudesse realisticamente ter evitado o colapso inicial, a escala do desastre destaca lacunas gritantes na redução de risco de desastres e na preparação diante de uma realidade climática alterada.
The country urgently needs real, funded investment in early-warning systems for glacial and flood hazards in high-risk mountain corridors. Right now, authorities must urgently map and monitor unstable glaciers, landslide-dammed lakes and river corridors, while restoring damaged sensors and establishing 24/7 real-time communication among mountain monitoring stations and downstream communities.
We need much stronger upstream hazard monitoring and river-corridor planning, including transboundary data-sharing with China, risk-sensitive infrastructure planning and continuous assessment of unstable glaciers, slopes and temporary debris dams.
Gatilhos claros de evacuação, abrigos de emergência e múltiplos canais de alerta, incluindo SMS, sirenes e rádio local, devem ser ativados imediatamente para dar às pessoas tempo suficiente para se deslocar à segurança à medida que a ameaça de inundações secundárias aumenta.
Here in the Himalayas, the warming of the region is destabilising our cryosphere: our glaciers, our glacial lakes and our mountain slopes. With each year of record heat that passes, the risk of exactly this kind of catastrophe rises.
Portanto, além dos sistemas de alerta precoce, também precisamos de infraestrutura resiliente ao clima, bem como adaptação liderada localmente e preparação para desastres desenhadas com e pelos próprios moradores que realmente vivem com o risco.
There must be meaningful investment in vulnerable communities, especially those downstream.
We need bridges, roads, hydropower and public facilities that can withstand floods, landslides and other cascading mountain hazards. We need locally led adaptation to encompass resilient public services, communications systems, livelihood protection and recovery support so that vulnerable downstream communities have the resources they need even before disaster strikes.
Nepal cannot do all this alone. Wealthy nations, which are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases and thus most responsible for the present climate crisis, should not limit their response to repatriating their dead citizens from my country and issuing symbolic gestures of support.
They must now ensure that we have the finance we need to recover and rebuild from this loss, as well as withstand what is to come.
Fundos climáticos devem ser entregues agora, e não como promessas futuras. O Nepal deve poder acessar o Fundo de Perdas e Danos para que assistência direta e oportuna chegue às famílias, e que casas, meios de subsistência e infraestrutura possam ser reconstruídos.
It must be new money, not aid re-labelled, and must come as grants, not loans. It must be easy and fast to access, not buried in a bureaucratic process and a timeline set by the next climate summit.
Nepal contributes less than 0. 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet we are among the most climate-vulnerable nations on earth, where warming doesn’t arrive gradually but as a wall of water and mud tearing through a valley in minutes.
Não estamos pedindo caridade. Exigimos justiça climática: ser compensados pelos sofrimentos de uma crise na qual quase não desempenhamos papel na sua criação.
Being compensated for this disaster does not mean the Nepalese people will be just passive recipients of foreign funds. Nepalese society has already mobilised to help fellow citizens struck by the disaster.
The response of young people in particular has been quick and unequivocal. Across Nepal, the youth have organised a Rasuwa Relief Group, mobilising resources, coordinating support and sharing verified information.
Seven years ago, I showed up to my first meeting of young climate activists, unsure if anyone would listen. Watching this generation mobilise in real time, faster and more effectively than most institutional responses, tells me the work of the past years has not been in vain.
Se há uma lição que desejo que as pessoas tirem do que ocorreu em Rasuwa, Nuwakot e Dhading, é esta: a ação climática não pode se limitar a metas de mitigação e a conferências de políticas, em ambientes onde as discussões são lentas e serpenteiam como rios preguiçosos.
Quando nossos líderes se sentam para decidir o que acontece a seguir, a juventude e as comunidades mais afetadas e vulneráveis devem ter um assento à mesa. Talvez ouvir suas vozes possa nos salvar do próximo desastre.
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