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and to ensure participation in disaster response planning for emergency situations and
evacuations, humanitarian emergency response and health-care services,
Emphasizing that sudden-onset natural disasters and slow-onset events seriously
affect the access of persons with disabilities to food and nutrition, safe drinking water and
sanitation, health-care services and medicines, education and training, adequate housing
and access to decent work,
Reaffirming the need for the continuing implementation of the Sendai Framework
for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, and its references to human rights,
Noting the Dhaka Conference on Disability and Disaster Risk Management, held in
2015 and in 2018, and the adoption of the Dhaka Declaration 2015 and the Dhaka
Declaration 2015+ respectively,
Recognizing the need for ensuring meaningful participation, inclusion and leadership
of persons with disabilities and their organizations within disaster risk management and
climate-related decision-making at the local, national, regional and global levels,
Expressing concern that countries lacking the resources to implement their
adaptation plans and programmes of action and effective adaptation strategies may suffer
from higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly
in developing countries, including those in least developed countries and small island
developing States,
Taking into account the imperatives of a just transition of the workforce and the
creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development
priorities,
Emphasizing the importance of implementing the commitments undertaken under
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on mitigation, adaptation
and the provision and the mobilization of finance, technology transfer and capacitybuilding to developing countries, and emphasizing also that realizing the goals of the Paris
Agreement would enhance the implementation of the Convention and would ensure the
greatest possible adaptation and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the adverse impact
of climate change on present and future generations,
Urging States that have not already ratified the Paris Agreement and the Doha
Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to do so,
Welcoming the twenty-forth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Katowice, Poland in December
2018, taking note of the adoption of the implementation guidelines for the Paris Agreement,
and looking forward to the climate action summit called for by the Secretary-General, to be
held in New York in September 2019, and to the twenty-fifth session of the Conference of
the Parties in Santiago, in December 2019, with the pre-Conference meeting to be held in
San José in October 2019,
Noting the importance for some of the concept of “climate justice” when taking
action to address climate change,
Welcoming the convening of the panel discussion on women’s rights and climate
change: climate action, good practices and lessons learned, and looking forward to the
summary report on the discussion to be prepared by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights,
Noting the analytical study on gender-responsive climate action for the full and
effective enjoyment of the rights of women prepared by the Office of the High
Commissioner pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 38/4 of 5 July 2018,2
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