Natural Disasters and Vulnerability

A/RES/58/215View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94e International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2004–2009

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/63/217

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2009	A/RES/63/217	Natural disasters and vulnerability	1,572	81%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/200	Natural disasters and vulnerability	1,298	68%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/196	Natural disasters and vulnerability	1,274	43%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/233	Natural disasters and vulnerability	1,124	46%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/215	Natural disasters and vulnerability	825	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2004–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2010	A/65/388	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/217
2008	A/63/351	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/61/200
2006	A/61/229	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/60/196
2004	A/59/228	Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/58/215

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Capacity Building Climate Change Coordination Within UN System Developing Countries Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems Focal Points Natural Disasters Public Information Risk Assessment Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction,⁴ in particular the section on the negative impacts of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters on vulnerable countries, in particular developing countries, as requested by the Assembly in its decision 57/547;

⁴A/58/277.

Urges the international community to continue to address ways and means, including through cooperation and technical assistance, to reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters, including those caused by extreme weather events, in particular in vulnerable developing countries, through the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and encourages the Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction to continue its work in this regard;

Encourages Governments to establish effective national platforms or focal points for disaster reduction, and to strengthen them where they already exist;

Also encourages Governments, in cooperation with the United Nations system and other stakeholders, to strengthen capacity-building in the most vulnerable regions, to enable them to address the socio-economic factors that increase vulnerability, and encourages the international community to provide effective assistance to developing countries in this regard;

Encourages the Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction to enhance the coordination on the promotion of disaster reduction as well as to make available to the relevant United Nations entities information on options for natural disaster reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather-related disasters and vulnerabilities;

Encourages the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change⁵ and the parties to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change⁶ to continue to address the adverse effects of climate change, especially in those developing countries that are particularly vulnerable, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, and also encourages the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to continue to assess the adverse effects of climate change on the socio-economic and natural disaster reduction systems of developing countries;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

⁶FCCC/CP/1997/7/Add.1, decision 1/CP.3, annex.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution in a separate section of his report on the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and decides to consider the issue of natural disasters and vulnerability at that session, under the sub-item “International Strategy for Disaster Reduction” of the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”.

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