Table 1.

Major international commitments in 2015 relative to human health and well-being

Sustainable development goals	Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction	Paris agreement (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• No poverty • Zero hunger • Good health and well-being • Quality education • Gender equality • Clean water and sanitation • Affordable and clean energy • Decent work and economic growth • Industry, innovation, and infrastructure • Reduced inequalities • Sustainable cities and communities • Responsible consumption and production • Climate action • Life below water • Life on land • Peace and justice, strong institutions • Partnerships for the goals	• Understanding disaster risk • Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk • Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience • Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “build back better” in recovery, rehabilitations, and reconstruction	This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: • Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; • Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; • Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilient development.