The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction is a series of United Nations conferences focusing on disaster and climate risk management in the context of sustainable development. The World Conference has been convened three times, with each edition to date having been hosted by Japan: in Yokohama in 1994, in Hyogo in 2005 and in Sendai in 2015.
As requested by the UN General Assembly, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) served as the coordinating body for the Second and Third UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction in 2005 and 2015.
The resolution of the World Conference on Natural Disasters Reduction is as mentioned below:
- It will note that each country has the sovereign responsibility to protect its citizens from natural disasters.
- It will give priority attention to the developing countries, particularly the least developed, land-locked countries and small-island developing states.
- It will promote and strengthen sub-regional, regional and international cooperation in activities to prevent, reduce and mitigate natural and other disasters, with particular emphasis on.
- It also declared the decade 1990-2000 as the International Decade for Natural Disaster.