聯合國祕書長潘基文年國際減災日致辭
Message on the International Day for Disaster Reduction
國際減災日致辭
13 October 2016
2016年10月13日
Last year, Governments adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and embedded its objectives in the 2030 Development Agenda. Today, we launch the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years”, which highlights how we can all contribute to reducing disaster losses. This year’s target is reducing loss of life.
去年，各國政府通過了《仙台減少災害風險框架》，並將框架目標納入《2030年發展議程》。今天，我們啓動“仙台七運動：七年七目標”，該運動重點指出我們如何都能爲減少災害損失作出貢獻。今年的目標是減少生命損失。
We can replace material possessions, but we cannot replace people. I am repeatedly appalled at how many people die in disasters. The majority of victims are invariably the poor and vulnerable.
物質財富損失後能夠再換，人卻不能。災害中死亡人數之多一次次令我感到震驚。大多數遇難者總是窮人和弱勢者。
Today, hundreds of millions of people live at risk from rising seas, earthquakes, drought, heatwaves, floods and storms. They live on marginal lands, beneath unstable hillsides or on storm-exposed coastlines. This is why eradicating extreme poverty – the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, is essential to reducing disaster risk.
如今，數以億計的人們生活在海平面上升、地震、乾旱、熱浪、洪水和風暴帶來的風險之中。他們生活在邊緣土地上、不穩定的山坡下或面臨風暴危險的海岸線上。這就是爲什麼消除極端貧窮，即17項可持續發展目標中的第一項，對減少災害風險至關重要。
The report “Poverty & Death: Disaster Mortality 1996-2015” published today by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), is a damning indictment of inequality. High income countries suffer huge economic losses in disasters, but people in low income countries pay with their lives.
聯合國減少災害風險辦公室（減災辦）今天發佈的題爲“貧窮與死亡：1996年至2015年災害死亡率”的報告是對不平等現象的一個強烈譴責。在災害中，高收入國家遭受巨大的經濟損失，而低收入國家的人民則付出生命的代價。
On this International Day for Disaster Reduction, I call on all Governments to work with civil society and the private sector to move from managing disasters to managing risk. Let us move from a culture of reaction to one of prevention and build resilience by reducing loss of life.
值此國際減災日，我呼籲各國政府與民間社會和私營部門合作，從管理災害轉向管理風險。讓我們通過減少生命損失，從被動反應的文化走向預防文化，並建設抗災能力。
