Using space technologies for natural disaster management

Emphasizing the importance of addressing vulnerability and integrating risk reduction into all phases of natural disaster management, post natural disaster recovery and development planning,

Emphasizing the importance of addressing vulnerability and integrating risk reduction into all phases of natural disaster management, post natural disaster recovery and development planning,

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

A. The role of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

Now, it doesn't require a natural disaster for this to work.

That unprecedented natural disaster affected millions of lives in many countries.

A. The role of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and

(iii) Implementation of an integrated, space based global natural disaster management system

(ii) Implementation of an integrated, space based global natural disaster management system

Almost one year ago, South East Asia suffered an unprecedented natural disaster.

Remote sensing of the Earth, meteorological and environmental monitoring and natural disaster management

We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Noting the enormous efforts required to alleviate the devastation caused by this natural disaster,

Noting the enormous efforts required to alleviate the devastation caused by this natural disaster,

23. Decides to maintain the annual observance of the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction on the second Wednesday of October, as a vehicle to promote a global culture of natural disaster reduction, including prevention, mitigation and preparedness

6. Also encourages the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction to continue to enhance the coordination of activities to promote disaster reduction and to make available to the relevant United Nations entities information on options for natural disaster reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather related disasters and vulnerabilities

5. Encourages the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction to enhance the coordination on the promotion of disaster reduction as well as to make available to the relevant United Nations entities information on options for natural disaster reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather related disasters and vulnerabilities

Recalling also the results, including the lessons learned, of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, outlined in the Geneva mandate on disaster reduction and the strategy document entitled A safer world in the twenty first century risk and disaster reduction ,Adopted at the programme forum on the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, held at Geneva from 5 to 9 July 1999.

Noting the critical role played by local resources, and by existing in country capacities, in natural disaster management and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

It demonstrates once again our vulnerability to natural phenomena and reminds us that we must incorporate disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction into our development policies.

8. Encourages the institutional arrangement for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to continue, within its mandate, particularly the Hyogo Framework for Action, to enhance the coordination of activities to promote natural disaster risk reduction and to make available to the relevant United Nations entities information on options for natural disaster risk reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather related disasters and vulnerabilities

18. Encourages Governments in natural disaster prone countries to establish, with the support of the international community, in particular the donors, national spatial information infrastructures relating to natural disaster preparedness, early warning, response and mitigation, including the necessary training of personnel

We also express our solidarity as human beings in the face of that tragic natural disaster.

Another speaker stressed that natural disaster recovery was also part of the process from relief to recovery.

The recent tsunami, caused by an earthquake, was an unprecedented natural disaster with extensive and devastating effects.

17. Stresses the need to ensure close links, as set out in resolution 54 219, between disaster prevention activities and the improvement of natural disaster preparedness and response

Natural disaster management was a huge challenge for the countries concerned and the Subcommittee had therefore examined the possibility of creating an international space coordination entity for disaster management.

10. Also stresses that, to reduce vulnerability to all natural hazards, including geological and hydrometeorological events and associated natural disasters, closer and more systematic cooperation, and information sharing on disaster preparedness between the scientific community and disaster managers at all levels should be strengthened

NASDA is also planning to reflect user requirements in the field of natural disaster reduction to future programmes.

The increased attention to natural disaster management called for at the national and international levels is clearly justified.

Finally, I welcome the vital role of the United Nations in mitigating the effects of the natural disaster.

Underlines the significance of developing an early warning system as a part of efforts to prevent and mitigate natural disaster particularly the disaster prone regions through international cooperation and partnership.

Noting the critical role played by local rescuers in natural disaster response as well as existing in country capacities,

We fully support efforts in the area of natural disaster mitigation, especially in the light of recent global trends.

Any war, wherever it may be taking place, affects us all directly, just the same as a natural disaster.

Emphasize the importance of regional cooperation and coordination in disaster reduction to effectively address the impact of natural disasters

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

Some progress is being made towards overcoming vulnerability to natural hazards by integrating disaster reduction measures into development strategies.

Thirdly, we are pleased that the Protocol applies equally to operations delivering emergency humanitarian assistance in natural disaster situations.

The earthquake and tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004, the world's worst natural disaster in living memory, took over 280,000 lives and devastated coastal areas and communities around the Indian Ocean.

7. Encourages the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction to continue, within its mandate, particularly the Hyogo Framework for Action, to enhance the coordination of activities to promote disaster risk reduction and to make available to the relevant United Nations entities information on options for natural disaster risk reduction, including severe natural hazards and extreme weather related disasters and vulnerabilities

Recalling the spate of recent international natural disasters, he drew attention to the importance of disaster preparedness, and welcomed the mechanisms on disaster reduction and early warning systems that had been introduced.

Recalling that the annual observance of the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction is on the second Wednesday of October,

Noting the critical role played by local resources, as well as by existing in country capacities, in natural disaster response,