International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

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

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13 documents · 1988–1997

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1997A/RES/51/185International Decade for Natural Disaster ReductionCompare with earlier document
1996A/RES/50/117[B]International Decade for Natural Disaster ReductionCompare with earlier document
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1996A/RES/50/117International Decade for Natural Disaster ReductionCompare with earlier document
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Coordination Within UN System Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems Human-Made Disasters Information Exchange Information Transfer Natural Disasters

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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.

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