Action Plan on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Opinion factsheet
F’din il-paġna
- Agriculture, Maritime and Consumer policies
- Disaster resilience
Opinion number:
CDR-5035-2016
Status:
Adottati
Objective
aims to promote disaster resilience by design in all European policies; including those concerning regional development and infrastructure investments;
endorses the elaboration of regional and local action plans for disaster resilience and prevention;
to support the European Commission's proposal COM(2016) 778 providing for the creation of a separate priority axis which would dispense with the requirement for national co-financing of reconstruction operations supported by the ERDF within an operational programme in response to major or regional natural disasters;
endorses the elaboration of regional and local action plans for disaster resilience and prevention;
to support the European Commission's proposal COM(2016) 778 providing for the creation of a separate priority axis which would dispense with the requirement for national co-financing of reconstruction operations supported by the ERDF within an operational programme in response to major or regional natural disasters;
Impact
During the Global Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico (22-26 May 2017), during the working session "Achieving the Sendai Framework and SDG’s target at Local Level", CoR Rapporteur Banaszak delivered feedback on the work of EU's local and regional authorities in the field of disaster risk reduction.
The Working Sessions have provided input into the Global Platform Chair’s Summary, which has been submitted to the President of the UN Economic and Social Council as a contribution to the 2017 High-level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF) that took place in New York in July 2017. It informed deliberations on this year’s HLPF theme "Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world" to ensure a risk-informed approach is at the centre of the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Working Sessions have provided input into the Global Platform Chair’s Summary, which has been submitted to the President of the UN Economic and Social Council as a contribution to the 2017 High-level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF) that took place in New York in July 2017. It informed deliberations on this year’s HLPF theme "Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world" to ensure a risk-informed approach is at the centre of the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- stresses that local and regional authorities have an institutional and political responsibility to protect the public and are a first line of response in crisis situations; highlights the importance of developing interregional cooperation in order to prevent disaster risks;
- strongly supports the European Commission's proposal COM(2016) 778 providing for the creation of a separate priority axis which would dispense with the requirement for national co-financing of reconstruction operations supported by the ERDF within an operational programme in response to major or regional natural disasters;
- endorses the support for national, regional and local risk management strategies and plans aimed, inter alia, at establishing objectives, benchmarks and time frames, and stresses the need to evaluate existing strategies and plans to ensure they are consistent with the Sendai Framework;
- disaster resilience is one of the cornerstones of sustainable development in the European Union;
- stresses that all EU projects relating to construction of new infrastructure should be resilient to disasters; calls for this principle to be mentioned explicitly in rules on how funds are used;
- notes that optimisation of risk management depends on cooperation between local government and national stakeholders, on the one hand, and private stakeholders, on the other, including insurance companies;