Building resilience through integrated climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: Concept Note

The high-level side event aims to highlight the importance of an integrated approach between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to build resilience and ensure sustainable development. The event will facilitate a dialogue among member states, concerned organizations and development practitioners on their experiences and lessons learned resulting from an integrated climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction approach. The event will also seek to identify priority areas and means for scaling up comprehensive and integrated risk management solutions as to ensure that development decisions are risk informed and climate resilient within the context of promoting coherence and synergies among the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.