The United Nations has announced that an English version of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is now available. It will also be released in the other five UN languages at the end of July 2015.
The Sendai Framework aims to achieve the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries over the next 15 years. It was adopted at the Third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan, on March 18th, 2015 and is the outcome of stakeholder consultations initiated in March 2012 and inter-governmental negotiations from July 2014 to March 2015, supported by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction at the request of the UN General Assembly.
The Framework will apply to the risk of small-scale and large-scale, frequent and infrequent, sudden and slow-onset disasters caused by natural or man-made hazards, as well as related environmental, technological and biological hazards and risks. It aims to guide the multihazard management of disaster risk in development at all levels as well as within and across all sectors.
Read the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
