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Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon
manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development
Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement 3 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 4 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as
possible,
Noting that further research on the impacts of climate change, including the
effects of arctic changes on the El Niño phenomenon, can support more effective
planning for resilience and recovery,
Noting with concern the scientific findings contained in the special report
entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Reaffirming 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 targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the stro ng 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 also 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, 5
Reaffirming further its vision of cities and human settlements that adopt and
implement disaster risk reduction and management, reduce vulnerability, build
resilience and responsiveness to natural and human-made hazards and foster
mitigation of and adaptation to climate change,
Noting with concern that the El Niño phenomenon has posed a serious challenge
to the hard-fought development gains of developing countries, particularly in terms
of diverting resources from national development plans and programmes,
Conscious of the importance of enhanced concerted efforts by the World
Meteorological Organization with relevant national, regional and international
monitoring centres to deliver, effectively and in a timely manner, more regionally
focused climate services as well as training and capacity-building related to the
El Niño/La Niña phenomenon, and noting the role of the International Research
Centre on El Niño at Guayaquil, Ecuador, in this regard,
Recalling that the peak of the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon was comparable in
strength to the 1982/83 and 1997/98 events and, therefore, one of the strongest on
record, and affected more than 60 million people during 2015 and 2016, in particular
in developing countries, with significant short- and long-term impacts on the health
of individuals, the economy and food production locally, regionally and globally,
particularly affecting people whose livelihood depends on agriculture, fisheries and
livestock activities,
Noting with concern that, as a consequence of the 2015/16 El Niño
phenomenon, heavy rains, floods and, conversely, cold waves and heatwaves,
wildfires, coral bleaching and drought episodes adversely affected countries and
peoples, in particular in Latin America, Eastern and Southern Africa and South -East
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