International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

A/RES/49/22BView PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 37c International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, published in 1995.

What else is in this group?

13 documents · 1988–1997

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1997).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/185	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	855	–
1996	A/RES/50/117[B]	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/117[A]	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/117	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	2,047	–
1995	A/RES/49/22B	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	461	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems Human-Made Disasters Information Exchange Information Transfer Natural Disasters

What’s in this document?

2 operative paragraphs

Consequently resolution 49/22 of 2 December 1994 becomes resolution 49/22 A.

See A/CONF.172/9, chap. I, annex II.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on early-warning capacities within the United Nations system and to make proposals on how they may be improved and better coordinated in order to provide for an adequate response to natural disasters and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment and, in this context, also to make concrete proposals on the transfer of technologies related to early warning, in particular to developing countries, taking into account chapter 34 of Agenda 21, 3/ as well as the Principles of the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation;

Also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report recommendations on the capacity of the United Nations system to coordinate effectively information about natural disasters and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment and to pass on this information to regional, national and sectoral early-warning capacities.

See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What else is in this group?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents