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The 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
18 March 2015

SendaiFrom 14 to 18 March 2015, the city of Sendai (Japan) hosted the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), aimed at reviewing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA) and at adopting a new enhanced international framework for the post-2015 period. The HFA was endorsed in 2005, inspired by the devastating South Asian tsunami. It called for substantial reduction of disaster losses in terms of human lives and social, economic and environmental damage.

After days of discussions and a final 30-hour negotiating session, the Sendai Declaration and Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted. The representatives of the 187 UN Member States attending the Conference approved seven targets , four priorities and a set of guiding principles, underscoring that substantial reduction of disaster risk requires perseverance and persistence, "with a more explicit focus on people and their health and livelihoods, and regular follow up."

Over the next 15 years the new accord seeks 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."

These are the seven Framework's global targets to be achieved over the next 15 years: a substantial reduction in global disaster mortality; a substantial reduction in numbers of affected people; a reduction in economic losses in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP); and substantial reduction in disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, including health and education facilities.

The adoption of the Sendai agreement represents a first and important step in a particularly crucial year for the United Nations, with world leaders set to meet in Addis Ababa in July to discuss development financing, then again in New York in September to adopt a new development agenda, and finally in Paris in December to forge a meaningful, binding climate change agreement.

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