International Cooperation to Reduce the Impact of the El Niño Phenomenon

A/RES/52/200View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98d International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 1998–2015

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/69/218

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2015	A/RES/69/218	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon	1,090	74%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/208	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon	819	83%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/158	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon	733	68%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/215	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon	627	78%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/199	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon	613	58%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2001–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/230	Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/218
2010	A/65/388	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/215
2006	A/61/229	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/59/232
2001	A/56/76	International cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/52/200A/RES/53/185A/RES/54/220A/RES/55/197

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Capacity Building Conferences Coordination Within UN System Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems El Niño Current Experts Financial Assistance Information Dissemination International Decades Natural Disasters Programme Implementation Technical Cooperation Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Invites States to incorporate in sustainable development programmes, at the national, regional and international levels, strategies to prevent, mitigate and rehabilitate the damage caused by natural disasters;

Calls upon States, relevant intergovernmental bodies and all others involved in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction to participate actively in the financial and technical support for Decade activities, including those related to international cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon, in order to ensure the implementation of the International Framework of Action for the Decade,² in particular with a view to translating the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action³ into concrete disaster reduction programmes and activities;

²See resolution 44/236, annex.

³A/CONF.172/9, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

Commends the national, regional and subregional efforts of affected countries, particularly those of developing countries, to reduce the impact of El Niño;

Requests the Secretary-General to facilitate, within the framework of the Decade, an internationally concerted and comprehensive strategy towards the integration of the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation of the damage caused by the El Niño phenomenon, including the development of long-term strategies which take into due consideration the need for technical cooperation, financial assistance, the transfer of appropriate technology and the dissemination of existing scientific knowledge, as part of the Decade's activities, the International Framework of Action for the Decade and the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action, and taking into account the relevant parts of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;⁴

⁴Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

Calls upon the secretariat of the Decade to continue to facilitate a concerted international approach to improvements in early-warning capacities for natural disasters and similar disasters with adverse impact on the environment, with particular reference to El Niño;⁵

⁵See resolutions 51/185, 49/22 B and 50/117 B.

Welcomes the establishment of the Inter-agency Task Force on El Niño for cooperative work on the prevention and mitigation of and preparedness for natural disasters related to the El Niño phenomenon;

Calls upon the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, especially the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme, as well as the International Council of Scientific Unions and the World Climate Research Programme, within the framework of the Decade, to contribute further to a comprehensive approach and study of El Niño and to intensify their cooperation with the regions affected by the phenomenon, especially developing countries, small island developing States and landlocked countries;

Invites States to support the oceanographic and terrestrial observation networks to observe, describe and predict climate anomalies related to El Niño;

Invites States, intergovernmental organizations and all those participating in the Decade to provide technical and financial assistance, including national capacity-building, to developing countries to support global and regional observation systems and research, including the dissemination of data on El Niño, to prevent, mitigate and redress the negative effects of the phenomenon;

Requests the Secretary-General, within the context of paragraph 4 of the present resolution and within available resources of the secretariat of the Decade, to promote an intergovernmental meeting of experts, including representatives of academic and scientific institutions devoted to the study and analysis of El Niño, in order to facilitate the exchange of information and national experiences related to the monitoring of the phenomenon as well as of strategies for the reduction of its impact and to provide to the meeting the reports of regional meetings and symposia specializing in the phenomenon;

Urges the Secretary-General to include the El Niño phenomenon and its consequences in the ongoing activities of the Decade to improve the effectiveness and increase international coordination of early-warning systems with regard to natural and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment;

Recommends that long-term public awareness and information programmes related to natural disasters, including those induced by El Niño and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment, be integrated into comprehensive national disaster management programmes that focus on preventive strategies for risk reduction and that those programmes be included as integral elements of United Nations support for social and economic development programmes;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, within the discussion on the implementation of the Decade, under the agenda item entitled "Environment and sustainable development", including proposals on how to integrate the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation of the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon into the development of the disaster reduction strategy for the twenty-first century.

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