A/RES/70/204 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business, Recalling that this new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the importance of promoting resilience and disaster risk reduction for sustainable development, Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity, Recalling that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, among other things, seeks to develop and implement holistic disaster risk management at all levels in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 7 Recalling also the Sendai Declaration 8 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, and expressing its profound gratitude to the Government and the people of Japan for hosting the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, from 14 to 18 March 2015, and to the Member States that provided all the necessary support, Recognizing the need for a broader and a more people-centred preventive approach to disaster risk and that disaster risk reduction practices need to be multi-hazard and multisectoral, inclusive and accessible in order to be efficient and effective, Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of disasters and their devastating impact in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss of life and long-term negative economic, social and environmental consequences for vu lnerable societies throughout the world and which hamper the achievement of their sustainable development, in particular in developing countries, Underscoring that 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 risks in a meaningful and coherent manner throughout the interrelated intergovernmental processes, Recognizing the adverse effects of climate change as contributors to environmental degradation and extreme weather events, which may, in certain instances, among other factors, contribute to disaster-induced human mobility, Recognizing also the outcome of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015, underscoring the commitment of all States to work for an ambitious and universal climate agreement, and reaffirming that the protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties shall address in a balanced manner, inter alia, __________________ 7 8 9 2/6 Resolution 69/283, annex II. Ibid., annex I. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.