it welcomes the efforts of cities and local authorities and invites them to scale up their efforts and support actions to reduce emissions andor to build resilience and decrease vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change and demonstrate these efforts for this reason the united nations committee of experts on global geospatial information management has developed the strategic framework on geospatial information and services for disasters this approach offers urban areas and cities options for strengthening risk governance enabling these localities to access and utilize nationally generated geospatial information as well as feeding local information back to the national level this mitigates consistent challenges regarding the provision of geospatial information and strengthens informed decisionmaking and monitoring before during and after hazardous events however the reality is that integrated implementation is not consistently pursued across countries or within states and regions