The Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) sets out 7 global targets and 4 priorities for action to reduce disaster related risk, including improving resilience and protecting the environment (UNISDR, 2015). Finally the Paris Agreement on climate change (UNFCCC, 2015) set a new course on international co-operation to address climate change. The implications of these agreements go beyond development co-operation to shape policy making in all countries, developed and developing, sending signals to investors, business, local authorities and communities that a new, environmentally sustainable way of doing business is emerging. When implemented, the 2015 international agreements will shape a new era of development cooperation, building on the experience of the past decades and reorienting development to address the drivers of poverty from inequality and climate change to resource degradation, conflict and overconsumption.