and planning ofhumanitarian and development actions in order to reduce risk,increase resilience and provide a smoother transition between relief,recovery and development. In this regard, we recognize also the needto integrate a gender perspective into the design and implementationof all phases of disaster risk management.189.We call for all relevant stakeholders, including Governments,international, regional and subregional organizations, the privatesector and civil society, to take appropriate and effective measures,taking into account the three dimensions of sustainable development,including through strengthening coordination and cooperation toreduce risk exposures for the protection of people, infrastructureand other national assets from the impact of disasters in line withthe Hyogo Framework for Action and any post-2015 framework fordisaster risk reduction.Climatechange190.We reaffirm that climate change is one of the greatest challenges ofour time, and we express profound alarm that emissions of greenhousegases continue to rise globally. We are deeply concerned that allcountries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable to theadverse impacts of climate change, and are already experiencingincreased impacts including persistent drought and extreme weatherevents, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification,further threatening food security and efforts to eradicate povertyand achieve sustainable development. In this regard we emphasize thatadaptation to climate change represents an immediate and urgentglobal priority.191.We underscore that the global nature of climate change calls for thewidest possible cooperation by all countries and their participationin an effective and appropriate international response, with a viewto accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. Werecall that UNFCCC provides that Parties should protect the climatesystem for the benefit of present and future generations of humankindon the basis of equity and in accordance with their common butdifferentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. We notewith grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effectof Parties mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissionsof greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathwaysconsistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase inglobal average temperature below 2 C or 1.5 C abovepre-industrial levels. We recognize the importance of mobilizingfunding from a variety of sources, public and private, bilateral andmultilateral, including innovative sources of finance, to supportnationally appropriate mitigation actions, adaptation measures,technology development and transfer and capacity-building indeveloping countries. In this regard, we welcome the launching of theGreen Climate Fund and call for its prompt operationalization so asto have an early and adequate replenishment process.192.We urge Parties to the UNFCCC and Parties to the Kyoto Protocol tofully implement their commitments, as well as decisions adopted underthose agreements. In this regard, we will build upon the progressachieved including at the most recent COP-17/CMP 7 in Durban.Forests193. We highlight the social, economic and environmental benefits offorests to people and the contributions of sustainable forestmanagement to the themes and objective of the Conference. We supportcross-sectoral and cross-institutional policies promoting sustainableforest management. We reaffirm that the wide range of products andservices that forests provide creates opportunities to address manyof the most pressing sustainable development challenges. We call forenhanced efforts to achieve the sustainable management of forests,reforestation, restoration and afforestation, and we support allefforts that effectively slow, halt and reverse deforestation andforest degradation, including interaliapromoting trade in legally-harvested forest products. We note theimportance of ongoing