Pana: 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 …