Proclamation of November 5th as World Tsunami Awareness Day.
In December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 5th as World Tsunami Awareness Day with the Resolution A/RES/70/203 to boost global efforts to strengthen tsunami preparedness. By the year 2030, an estimated 50 % of the world’s population will live in coastal areas exposed to flooding, storms and tsunamis. Scaling up international cooperation to developing countries will help ensure that 100% of communities at risk of tsunami are prepared for and resilient to tsunamis by 2030 . The General Assembly, Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster RiskReduction 2015–2030 , adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, as endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/283 of 3 June 2015, and recognizing that one of the priorities for action of the Sendai Framework is an understanding of disaster risk for prevention and mitigation and for the development and implementa...