Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
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disaster resilience at all levels and in ensuring adequate means of implementation.
The gaps indicate a need to develop an action-oriented framework that Governments
and relevant stakeholders can implement in a supportive and complementary
manner, and which helps to identify disaster risks to be managed and guides
investment to improve resilience.
10. Ten years after the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action, disasters
continue to undermine efforts to achieve sustainable development.
11. The intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda,
financing for development, climate change and disaster risk reduction provide the
international community with a unique opportunity to enhance coherence across
policies, institutions, goals, indicators and measurement systems for
implementation, while respecting the respective mandates. Ensuring credible links,
as appropriate, between these processes will contribute to building resilience and
achieving the global goal of eradicating poverty.
12. It is recalled that the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in 2012, entitled “The future we want”, 7 called for
disaster risk reduction and the building of resilience to disasters to be addressed
with a renewed sense of urgency in the context of sustainable development and
poverty eradication and, as appropriate, to be integrated at all levels. The
Conference also reaffirmed all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment
and Development. 8
13. Addressing climate change as one of the drivers of disaster risk, while
respecting the mandate of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, 9 represents an opportunity to reduce disaster risk in a meaningful and
coherent manner throughout the interrelated intergovernmental processes.
14. Against this background, and in order to reduce disaster risk, there is a need to
address existing challenges and prepare for future ones by focusing on monitoring,
assessing and understanding disaster risk and sharing such information and on how
it is created; strengthening disaster risk governance and coordination across relevant
institutions and sectors and the full and meaningful participation of relevant
stakeholders at appropriate levels; investing in the economic, social, health, cultural
and educational resilience of persons, communities and countries and the
environment, as well as through technology and research; and enhancing multihazard early warning systems, preparedness, response, recovery, rehabilitation and
reconstruction. To complement national action and capacity, there is a need to
enhance international cooperation between developed and developing countries and
between States and international organizations.
15. The present Framework will apply to the risk of small-scale and large-scale,
frequent and infrequent, sudden and slow-onset disasters caused by natural or manmade hazards, as well as related environmental, technological and biological
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. The climate change issues mentioned in the present
Framework remain within the mandate of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
under the competences of the parties to the Convention.
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