The Bali Road Map includes the Bali Action Plan, which charts the course for a new negotiating process designed to tackle climate change, with the aim of completing this by 2009. Much progress towards a post Kyoto regime was taken up and the coming on board of USA at the two week long conference was heartening.

To promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards and it underscores the need for, and identifies ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The plan of action identifies a need to enhance international and regional cooperation and assistance in the field of disaster risk reduction through: The transfer of knowledge, technology and expertise to enhance capacity building for disaster risk reduction; The sharing of research findings, lessons learned and best practices; The compilation of information on disaster risk and impact for all scales of disasters in a way that can inform sustainable development and disaster risk reduction; Appropriate support in order to enhance governance for disaster risk reduction, for awareness-raising initiatives and for capacity-development measures at all levels, in order to improve the disaster resilience of developing countries; The full, speedy and effective implementation of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, taking into account the impact of disasters on the debt sustainability of countries eligible for this programme; Financial assistance to reduce existing risks and to avoid the generation of new risks. It comes more than a decade after the Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a safer world.

The ISDR (February 2008) aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters. It operates through five regional bodies and aims to implement Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015

Defining folklore (or traditional and popular culture) as the totality of tradition-based creations of a cultural community, expressed by a group or individuals and recognized as reflecting the expectations of a community in so far as they reflect its cultural and social identity; its standards and values are transmitted orally, by imitation or by other means. Its forms are, among others, language, literature, music, dance, games, mythology, rituals, customs, handicrafts, architecture and other arts. The recommendation suggests identification, conservation, preservation, dissemination and protection of folklore as important elements needing international cooperation.

The main objectives of the WHO Traditional medicine activities are: To facilitate integration of traditional medicine into the national health care system by assisting Member States to develop their own national policies on traditional medicine; To promote the proper use of traditional medicine by developing and providing international standards, technical guidelines and methodologies; and to act as a clearing-house to facilitate information exchange in the field of traditional medicine.

At the midpoint of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, the World Conference had identified, on the basis of national reports and technical discussions a course of action up to the end of the decade
(Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation 
World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994. This formed the basis of the Hyogo Framework drawn up in 2005.