India, Sept. 16 -- UN leaders face mounting pressure to move beyond rhetoric as Nepal's deadly glacier collapse and record global disasters expose the cost of climate inaction.

With the Iran war fuelling the worst energy crisis in history, experts say UNGA and COP31 must link energy security, loss and damage finance and electrification to concrete, trackable commitments, not vague promises.

As more than 1,300 people have been killed and thousands remain missing after a glacier collapse triggered catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China's Tibet region, Nepal has called for a "global effort" to confront the worsening climate crisis.

The disaster comes amid a year of extreme weather, including more than 1 million hectares of land burnt in...