21. Recognizes the importance of early warning as an essential element in the culture of prevention, and encourages renewed efforts at all levels to contribute to natural hazard monitoring and impact prediction, the development and transfer of technology, capacity-building for disaster preparedness, the detection of natural hazards and the issuance and communication of early warning, as well as education and professional training, public information and awareness-raising activities, and stresses the need for appropriate action in response to early warning;
21. 认识到预警作为防灾文化的一个基本要素的重要性，鼓励在各级重新作出努力，对自然险害的监测和影响预测、技术开发和转让、备灾能力建设、自然险害侦测、预警的发出和通报以及教育和专业培训、新闻和提高认识活动作出贡献，并着重指出需要对预警采取适当行动；