World Weather Attribution, an international collaboration, has underscored the urgent need for Nepal to limit development in low-lying, riverside areas of the cities and scale up early warning and prompt action to avoid repeat of flooding disasters.

'Climate change was responsible for the extreme three day downpours in Nepal about 10 percent more intense,' concluded the organization in its recently published report. The flood and landslide triggered by heavy rain in Nepal in late September caused heavy loss to the country as it claimed at least 244 lives. 'The rainfall became 10 percent more intense by human-induced climate change,' pointed out the report.