Disaster risk reduction A/RES/72/218 Nations bodies and other relevant actors to promote ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction approaches at all levels; 12. Also recognizes that economic losses are rising as a result of the increasing number and value of assets exposed to hazards, and encourages countries to conduct a disaster risk assessment of existing critical infrastructure, to make disaster r isk assessments a prerequisite for infrastructure and housing investments and to strengthen regulatory frameworks for land-use planning and building codes, as appropriate, towards achieving target (d) of the Sendai Framework, and in this regard encourages countries to integrate disaster risk reduction considerations into social, economic and environmental investments; 13. Acknowledges that water is essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, 14 and that water-related disasters and multidimensional hazards threaten lives, livelihoods, agriculture and basic service infrastructure and cause substantial socioeconomic damage and losses, and that sustainable and integrated water resource management is necessary for successful disaster prepar edness, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, and in this regard invites all countries to integrate land and water management, including for floods and droughts, into their national and subnational planning and management processes; 14. Emphasizes that preventing and reducing disaster risk provides exponential returns and significantly reduced costs associated with subsequent response, as well as the importance of additional efforts to increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning mechanisms of States, in order to ensure that early warning leads to early action, and encourages all relevant stakeholders to support these efforts; 15. Urges States, while implementing the Sendai Framework, to continue working on data collection and the development of baselines on current losses, including working towards the collection of disaggregated information and historical disaster losses going back, at least, to 2005, if feasible; 16. Encourages States to give appropriate consideration to disaster risk reduction in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where it is reflected across several Goals and targets, including in their voluntary national reviews; 17. Reiterates its strong encouragement of and the need for effective coordination and coherence, as applicable, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 15 the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 16 and the Sendai Framework, as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 12 the Convention on Biological Diversity, 17 the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 18 and the New Urban Agenda, 9 while respecting the relevant mandates, in order to build synergies and resilience, and addressing the global challenge of eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty; 18. Urges that due consideration continue to be given to the review of the global progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework as part of the __________________ 14 15 16 17 18 17-23287 Resolution 70/1. Resolution 69/313, annex. See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619. Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480. 5/8