CIDI: Declaration of Santo Domingo for the sustainable development of the Americas
A declaration of the ministers and high-level authorities responsible for the sustainable development of the Americas, adopted during the eighth plenary session held on November 19, 2010, which considers the links between vulnerability, poverty, inequity, environmental degradation, and disasters, as well as the need to incorporate comprehensive disaster risk management into the public agenda of the states and to promote international and regional coordination to respond, in a coordinated, effective, and efficient manner, to emergency situations.