UN chief warns of 'megadisaster'
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The UN's disaster chief urges countries to divert small sums spent on emergency relief to tackling disaster prevention.
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President warned that talks on climate change must take place within a UN framework.
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Damage done by Asia's tsunami gives a clearer idea of the danger climate change poses to small islands, which fear rising seas will submerge them as the world warms, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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The United Nations humanitarian chief warned Tuesday of a catastrophic situation developing in Darfur unless international donors act soon to bolster a beleaguered African peacekeeping force in the Sudanese province.
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The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti warned on Monday against an early troop withdrawal and said its reconstruction efforts in the Caribbean nation had limits.
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The UN chief says escalating violence in Sudan's Darfur region risks suffering on a "catastrophic scale".
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The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain&#39;s chief scientist said on Tuesday.
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Â· 'Political assassination' sparks fresh violenceÂ· UN secretary general warns of catastrophe
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Britain's foreign secretary  warned at the United Nations on Friday that climate change was  a growing threat to international security and the world  economy, saying the next 10 years would be crucial.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
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More people are being caught up in a growing number of natural disasters, the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction says.
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations&#39; World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
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Millions of people will be at risk of disease unless there is immediate action to provide clean water in communities hit by tidal waves in South Asia, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned.
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The UN's emergency aid chief says he is optimistic the world will meet the challenges of the tsunami disaster.
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UN chief Kofi Annan warns Sudan it will be responsible for any worsening of Darfur's humanitarian crisis.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says the devastation in Indonesia's Aceh province is the worst he has ever seen.