World's megacities ripe for 'megadisaster': UN

GENEVA (AFP)

“The trends in disasters particularly from climate change are of enormous concern, we can only expect that this trend is going to continue,” he told journalists on the sidelines of a conference on reducing disaster risks.

Some 90 percent of disasters are of climatic origin, caused by storms, floods, drought or other extreme weather conditions, according to the UN’s weather agency.