A/RES/72/218
Disaster risk reduction
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 sustai nable 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 implementa tion targets 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 soli darity,
Welcoming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador,
from 17 to 20 October 2016, 9
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 Disaster Risk Reduction 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, displacement 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 the importance of promoting policies and planning that build
resilience and reduce displacement risk in the context of disasters, including through
transboundary cooperation,
Noting the convening of the International Conference on the Implementation of
the Health Aspects of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
2015–2030, held in Bangkok on 10 and 11 March 2016, which adopted the Bangkok
Principles for the implementation of the health aspects of the Sendai Framework as a
contribution to the Sendai Framework to build resilient health systems,
Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030, 10 and
acknowledging that forests provide essential ecosystem services, such as timber, food,
fuel, fodder, non-wood products and shelter, as well as contribute to soil and water
conservation and clean air, and that forests prevent land degradation and
desertification and reduce the risk of floods, landslides and avalanches, droughts, dust
storms and sandstorms and other natural disasters,
Recognizing climate change as one of the drivers of disaster risk, and that the
adverse effects of climate change, as contributors to environmental degradation and
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Resolution 71/256, annex.
See resolution 71/285.
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