Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries A/RES/74/232 climate change as well as the impact and the rise in frequency of natural and humanmade disasters, which further threaten food security, health and efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and expresses its concern that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change and other environmental issues; 25. Welcomes the 2019 Climate Action Summit convened by the SecretaryGeneral on 23 September, and notes the multi-partner initiatives and commitments presented during the Summit; 26. Recognizes that disasters, many of which are exacerbated by climate change, and which are increasing in frequency and intensity, significantly impede progress towards sustainable development, and also recognizes the synergies between the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, acknowledges the importance of continued support for and international cooperation on adaptation and mitigation efforts and on strengthening resilience, stresses the necessity of adequate and predictable financial resources from a variety of sources, including public and private ones, highlights the specific needs and special circumstances of developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, recognizes that effective disaster risk management contributes to sustainable development, and in this regard underlines the importance of strengthening disaster risk reduction and early warning systems in order to minimize the consequences of disasters; 27. Underlines the need to reduce the vulnerability of the least developed countries to economic, natural and environmental shocks and disasters, as well as climate change, and to enhance their ability to meet these and other challeng es by strengthening their resilience, and in this regard stresses that it is important that all countries and other actors work together to further develop and implement concrete measures, on an urgent basis, at the national and international levels so as to build the resilience of the least developed countries to withstand economic shocks and mitigate their adverse effects, to withstand and overcome the adverse effects of climate change, to enhance sustainable growth and protect biodiversity and to withsta nd natural hazards in order to reduce the risk of disasters, as agreed upon in the Istanbul Programme of Action; 28. Also underlines the need to address the economic, social and environmental impacts of climate change, and emphasizes the need for national and international action to enhance efforts to build resilience, especially for the most vulnerable, including by mainstreaming resilience into investment decision -making, building resilience through the sustainable management of ecosystems and value chains, building the resilience of health systems and building resilience to reduce the impact and cost of natural disasters; 29. Further underlines the importance of improving the coordination and effectiveness of resilience-building initiatives for the least developed countries by leveraging existing measures at the national, regional and global levels to respond to various types of disasters and shocks, as elaborated in the report of the Secretary General on crisis mitigation and resilience-building for the least developed countries; 12 30. Encourages countries to develop national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 in accordance with target (e) of the Sendai Framework, recognizes the importance of promoting their alignment and integration with sustainable development and climate change adaptation strategies, also recognizes that the development of climate change adaptation and national disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 is an opportunity to maximize synergies across the Sustainable __________________ 12 19-22505 A/72/270. 7/11