Disaster risk reduction A/RES/74/218 Recognizing also the importance of promoting policies and planning that build resilience and reduce displacement risk in the context of disasters, including through transboundary cooperation, Recalling 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, 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 extreme weather events, may, in certain instances, among other factors, contribute to disaster-induced human mobility, and in this regard acknowledging the internationally agreed outcomes adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 12 Recognizing also that disasters, many of which are exacerbated by climate change and are increasing in frequency and intensity, significantly impede progress towards sustainable development, Reaffirming the Paris Agreement, and encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible, Welcoming the holding of the 2019 Climate Action Summit convened by the Secretary-General on 23 September, and noting the multi-partner initiatives and commitments presented during the Summit, Looking forward to the preparatory meetings leading to the fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, to be held in Qatar in 2021, to raise ambition and accelerate action to reduce disaster risk in the least developed count ries, Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the Sendai Framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement, Noting with concern the findings contained in the special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, Global Warming of 1.5°C, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, noting with concern also the findings contained in the special report of the Panel on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, entitled Climate Change and Land, and noting with concern further the findings contained in the special report of the Panel entitled The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Stressing the urgent need to address the unprecedented global decline in biodiversity, noting with concern the findings of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and in this regard looking forward to the 2020 United Nations summit on biodiversity and the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which will adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, Reaffirming the importance of strengthening international cooperation, in the face of disasters, weather-related hazards, including those driven by natural climate cycles such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, and the adverse effects of climate change, to estimate and prevent major damage and ensure an adequa te response, early __________________ 12 19-22487 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. 3/11