United Nations
A/RES/71/226
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 19 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463/Add.3)]
71/226. Disaster risk reduction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/204 of 22 December 2015 and all previous relevant
resolutions,
Recalling also the Sendai Declaration 1 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 2
Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 3
Agenda 21, 4 the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 5 the
Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development 6 and the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation), 7 and reaffirming the outcome document of the United
Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 8 in
particular the decisions related to disaster risk reduction,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
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 pover ty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
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1
Resolution 69/283, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
3
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
5
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
6
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
7
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
8
Resolution 66/288, annex.
2
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