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Disaster risk reduction
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also 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 targ ets 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,
Reaffirming further the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in
Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016, 9 and recognizing the linkages between disaster
risk reduction and sustainable urban development,
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,
Reiterating the call in the Sendai Framework for the substantial reduction of
disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical,
social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and
countries,
Expressing its deep concern at the number and scale of disasters and their
devastating impact this year and in recent years, which have resulted in massive loss
of life, food insecurity, water-related challenges, displacement, humanitarian needs
and long-term negative economic, social and environmental consequences for
vulnerable societies throughout the world, and which hamper the achievement of their
sustainable development, in particular that of developing countries,
Recognizing that disaster risk is increasingly complex and systemic and that
hazards can trigger each other with cascading impacts across sectors and geographies,
as well as at the local, national, regional and global levels, and that the interrelation
of risks across multiple dimensions and scales and potential unintended negative
consequences should inform development policies and investments, emphasizing that
these policies should be oriented towards building resilience and achieving
sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals, and noting in this regard the
findings contained in the report of the Secretary-General on progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals, 10 the Global Sustainable Development Report and
the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, and stressing the
importance of an integrated understanding of disaster risk in the implementation of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement 11 and the Sendai
Framework,
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
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