The United Nations (UN) climate loss and damage fund moved to provide US$20 million in aid to flood-stricken Nepal — the first time it has set aside money for any country, according to the SCMP.

The fund’s board agreed to earmark the money at an extraordinary meeting for the country, hit in August by floods that killed more than 1,400 people and left over 5,000 missing, also according to the SCMP.