The law sets out a framework for disaster prevention, mitigation, and management and emphasises the importance of strategic readiness and systematic preparedness to prevent the impacts of climate change, reducing vulnerability to disasters. It defines strategic readiness as including the identification of climate change impacts, as well as necessary legislation and education to mitigate these impacts.
The laws stipulates that the the government must approve contingency plans founded in the science of climate forecasts and requires the government to carve out areas of risk likely to be affected by disasters. Disaster management plans should include forecasted risks of: floods, drought, cyclones, fire, epidemics, erosion, landslides, and oil spills. The law provides for the establishment of an early warning system to monitor phenomena likely to cause disasters. It requires the system to use yellow, orange, and red risk levels and commensurate alerts to the public.
The law also provides for the declaration of local and national emergencies and authorises and prescribes emergency actions of the Council of Ministers in the event of an imminent or occurring disaster. Directs the Council of Ministers to establish a Disaster Management Fund.
