A case for Nepal: suing major carbon emitters for floods

The catastrophic floods in Nepal which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people in August 2026, is overwhelmingly attributed to climate change. This is yet another worst-case climate change scenario from South Asia, after the floods in Pakistan in 2022.

A debate that has not drawn much attention so far in this part of the world is that there is scope to explore and establish the flood victims as victims of climate wrongs. The case for the Nepalese people needs to be analysed from the prism of climate litigations used by plaintiffs in many jurisdictions of Europe and the U.S.

in the last two decades.