Earth Equity News

Spate of Natural Disasters Spurs Record Relief Spending for U.N. By Nathanial Gronewold, Greenwire, 12/6/10. “The U.N. system will spend more than $3 billion this year responding to natural disasters… Most of the cash -- believed to be a record amount spent by the world body on natural disasters -- went to emergency efforts for floods in Pakistan and the earthquake in Haiti, but the United Nations mobilized relief in two dozen other countries whose miseries mostly went unnoticed in the international press… The funds were divided among multiple U.N. agencies, governments and private relief groups managing operations in at least 24 countries enduring earthquakes, floods, droughts and even heavy snowfall.”