A/RES/58/215 disaster reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather-related disasters and vulnerabilities; 6. Encourages the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 4 and the parties to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 5 to continue to address the adverse effects of climate change, especially in those developing countries that are particularly vulnerable, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, and also encourages the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to continue to assess the adverse effects of climate change on the socio-economic and natural disaster reduction systems of developing countries; Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 7. fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution in a separate section of his report on the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and decides to consider the issue of natural disasters and vulnerability at that session, under the sub-item “International Strategy for Disaster Reduction” of the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”. 78th plenary meeting 23 December 2003 _______________ 4 5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. FCCC/CP/1997/7/Add.1, decision 1/CP.3, annex. 3

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