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In the Americas, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, governments and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are working together to strengthen disaster and climate risk governance at national and local levels. IFRCS supports states strengthening disaster risk governance through the development of legal frameworks to address disaster and climate risks in a comprehensive manner. This includes integration between general disaster risk management laws and those related to climate change adaptation. A coherent approach at the domestic level is needed to meet states' closely related commitments under the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This document calls on governments and stakeholders to:

• Prioritise and support the strengthening of disaster and climate risk governance. Strengthened disaster and climate risk governance at national, regional and local levels is critical to manage increased weatherrelated risks we are facing. This includes involving communities in the design and implementation of laws and solutions that enable urgent climate action and facilitating climate finance to enable them to do this critical work. 
• Develop and implement effective climate-smart disaster-related laws. This includes aligning laws and systems across the humanitarian, development, environment and climate sectors to ensure coherence, definition of roles and responsibilities of all actors, stronger coordination, and concrete impacts on the ground. 
• Address the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people and communities in legal frameworks, including people in crises and those displaced, so that they are reached, informed and included in global, national and local decisions and plans, and their needs are met.