Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on Financing for Development and the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,...
The idea of accumulated authority over time is a completely accepted standard. The global community does not have to reinvent the wheel every time the political wind changes in the USA.
The USA books of laws can fill buildings of libraries. The USA law builds on itself and falls under the authority of the Supreme Court to honor it as constitutional. None of these international frameworks are new. They all have history, great scholars and valid facts for the framework.
The meeting in Paris of 2015 was not a radical new idea brought to the international community by President Obama. It was the 21st meeting of these countries and their presidents and ministers.
Conference of the Parties (click here)
Twenty First Session
Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015
The reason I brought all this up tonight is because understanding the responsibility conveyed in this agreements spans a great deal of work. Hours and hours over decades of time. This is nothing a head of state should ignore. It was a historical meeting with nearly all heads of state in attendance. This is permanent and going forward. Countries are taking the climate issue extremely seriously. The USA needs to stop being stupid about the needs for it's own responsibility.
I'll work through it. This is called work. Understanding a concern of a global community is work. It isn't just the USA and a movement. This is not a movement anymore. This is our reality.
The idea of accumulated authority over time is a completely accepted standard. The global community does not have to reinvent the wheel every time the political wind changes in the USA.
The USA books of laws can fill buildings of libraries. The USA law builds on itself and falls under the authority of the Supreme Court to honor it as constitutional. None of these international frameworks are new. They all have history, great scholars and valid facts for the framework.
The meeting in Paris of 2015 was not a radical new idea brought to the international community by President Obama. It was the 21st meeting of these countries and their presidents and ministers.
Conference of the Parties (click here)
Twenty First Session
Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015
The reason I brought all this up tonight is because understanding the responsibility conveyed in this agreements spans a great deal of work. Hours and hours over decades of time. This is nothing a head of state should ignore. It was a historical meeting with nearly all heads of state in attendance. This is permanent and going forward. Countries are taking the climate issue extremely seriously. The USA needs to stop being stupid about the needs for it's own responsibility.
I'll work through it. This is called work. Understanding a concern of a global community is work. It isn't just the USA and a movement. This is not a movement anymore. This is our reality.
The Sendai Framework (click here) is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and other stakeholders. It aims for the following outcome:
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.
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.
The Sendai Framework is the successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. It is the outcome of stakeholder consultations initiated in March 2012 and inter-governmental negotiations held from July 2014 to March 2015, which were supported by the UNISDR upon the request of the UN General Assembly.
UNISDR has been tasked to support the implementation, follow-up and review of the Sendai Framework....
