Solar panels, not sirens: how 'perverse' climate zealots killed thousands in Nepal

New York Post · Bjorn Lomborg · 2026-11-06 00:23 UTC

If the UN climate summit wants to honor the dead, it should pay for the flood-warning systems they never got — then get out of the way of Nepal’s growth.

Next week, the annual United Nations climate summit will once again misuse a catastrophe to get attention.

Starting Monday, the COP31 gathering in Antalya, Turkey, will highlight the devastating ice-and-rock avalanche that tore through northern Nepal’s Trishuli Valley in late August.

The disaster left more than 1,400 dead, 5,000 missing and a recovery bill of nearly $5 billion, about an eighth of the country’s economy.

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