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As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, the United Nations in 2005 wrongly predicted there would be 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the previous decade as a result of global warming. Aaron Worthing noticed Friday that the 'handy map" the U.N. had created to identify places most at risk for such population migrations has been removed: You might remember the other day I pointed out how the UN predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010, a prediction that came up laughably short of the mark by only around 50 million. Well, if you go to that post and click on...

NEW YORK (AP) - Restaurants are clearing space for world leaders and their entourages, the Waldorf-Astoria is fluffing the pillows in the presidential suite and people who live on Manhattan's East Side are just hoping to get into their buildings without a police escort. Excerpted per FR posting rules.

In a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the work of the United Nations and said it is “the single most important global institution.”

New York, US - The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind recently witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christina Figueres, said Friday. At a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Figueres stressed the need for governments to take swift action to lead the world towards a low carbon future. 'Flooding in Pakistan and wildfires in Russia were so dramatic that many other major weather disasters in other parts of the world were relegated as secondary news,' Figueres said.

U.N. Poverty Adviser Says Promises of Aid to Africa Must Be Kept in 2006, or Millions Will Die By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 9, 2006 — Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly, the top U.N. adviser on poverty said Monday while insisting that every penny must be accounted for to ensure it is used properly. Jeffrey Sachs, who is director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called 2005 the year of promises, after the leaders of the world's wealthiest...

By ZARAR KHAN Friday, October 28, 2005 Posted at 6:29 AM EDT Associated Press Muzaffarabad, Pakistan — The United Nations warned on Friday that it will run out of money and be forced to ground helicopters delivering desperately needed relief supplies to quake-hit northern Pakistan unless donors come through with the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to see 2.3 million hungry people through the winter. Jan Vandemoortele, UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Pakistan, also urged archrivals India and Pakistan to open the disputed Kashmir border, saying this would help the relief effort -- if not solve logistical challenges posed by...