Effective Global Response to Address the Impacts of the El Niño Phenomenon

A/RES/71/227View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19c Disaster risk reduction, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2017–2019

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/73/230

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/RES/73/230	Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon	2,251	60%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/227	Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon	1,685	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2017–2020

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2020	A/75/226	Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/230
2019	A/74/248	Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/230
2018	A/73/268	Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/227
2017	A/72/259	Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/227

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems El Niño Current International Cooperation

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Urges the effective implementation of the Sendai Declaration1 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030;2

Reaffirms the importance of developing strategies at the national, subregional, regional and international levels that aim to prevent, mitigate and repair the adverse economic, social and environmental impacts of the El Niño phenomenon, while recognizing ongoing national initiatives by affected countries to strengthen their capacities;

Recognizes the continued efforts by the Governments of Ecuador and Spain, the World Meteorological Organization and the inter-agency secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to support the International Research Centre on El Niño, and encourages them and other members of the international community to continue to make such contributions for the advancement of the Centre;

Welcomes the activities undertaken so far to strengthen the International Research Centre on El Niño, through collaboration with international monitoring centres, including national oceanographic institutions, and encourages further efforts to enhance regional and international recognition of and support for the Centre and to develop tools for decision makers and government authorities aimed at reducing the impact of the El Niño phenomenon;

Notes the assistance provided to Governments by the International Research Centre on El Niño and by other Governments and institutions in the development of early warning systems that allow for the implementation of anticipatory risk reduction measures that contribute to the reduction of the potential human, economic and environmental impacts of the phenomenon;

Recognizes the technical and scientific support of the World Meteorological Organization in producing regionally coordinated monthly and seasonal forecasts, in particular its establishment of a consensus mechanism for the development of updates on El Niño/La Niña conditions, which receives contributions from several climate centres, and also recognizes various initiatives undertaken by different countries to strengthen national and regional capacities;

Encourages the World Meteorological Organization, in this regard, to continue to strengthen collaboration and the exchange of data and information with relevant institutions;

Calls upon the international community to urgently provide financial, technical and capacity-building support to countries that were affected by the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon;

Encourages responses to the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon not only to address the immediate needs but also to support longer-term sustainable development and build the resilience of livelihoods, especially in the agricultural sectors and rural areas;

Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;

Encourages the United Nations inter-agency task team on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals to consider discussing, at the second and third annual multi-stakeholder forums on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, recommendations on how to better identify requirements and options for the adequate provision of science, technology and innovation elements to enable countries to address the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon, as appropriate;

Encourages the second and third Global Infrastructure Forums to identify and address, as appropriate, infrastructure and capacity gaps and needs to enhance preparedness and promote early actions in countries affected by the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon;

Requests the United Nations system, through existing coordination mechanisms and platforms, to take into consideration, where appropriate, the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon when designing risk reduction and development strategies, in particular in the context of the United Nations Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Towards a Risk-Informed and Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development;

Encourages interested Member States, with the support of the United Nations development system, to develop integrated, coherent and comprehensive government-led strategies to mitigate the adverse impacts of the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon and to collaborate in support of affected countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the General Assembly at its seventy-second and seventy-third sessions, under the sub-item entitled “Disaster risk reduction” of the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a section on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to consider at its seventy-third session the topic “Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon” under the sub-item entitled “Disaster risk reduction”, unless otherwise agreed.

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