Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

A/RES/3326(XXIX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1974–2000

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/54/216

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/216	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	638	28%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/187	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	717	23%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/110	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	421	1%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/86	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	278	1%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/168	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	529	14%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Consultations Environmental Degradation Environmental Information Environmental Monitoring Environmental Protection International Economic Relations Permanent Sovereignty Sustainable Development Weather Modification

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on the work of its second session and of its adopted work programme;

Requests the United Nations Environment Programme:

To conduct its activities, in its field of competence, in line with the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order;

( b) To adopt measures for intensifying efforts to facilitate the participation of institutions of developing countries in the preparation, development and implementation of the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, taking fully into account the permanent sovereignty of States over their natural resources and on the basis of close co-operation and continuous consultations with all States:

To ensure that, in the design, implementation and development of the Global Environment Monitoring System, on the basis of voluntary participation of Member States, its objective of detecting, with enough anticipation, impending changes, whether man-made or natural, occurring in any part of the environment and threatening to cause significant damage to man's well-being is fully taken into account, in order to provide Governments with a basis for immediate preventive action;

( b) To give attention, when considering the report on the International Referral System to be submitted to it by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, at its third session, to the needs especially of developing countries for information on the environment and, in particular, to such needs of countries affected by problems of degradation and depletion of their natural resources with respect to which the timely exchange and provision of adequate information,· through the International Referral System, would facilitate the adoption of measures for their solution;

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, in keeping with the goals and objectives of the Programme:

To prepare a report on the environmental impact resulting from the irrational and wasteful use of natural resources, as reflected in the current methods and forms of production and consumption, and to present it to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fourth session;

To prepare the new formulation of the programme activities in the priority subject areas of trade, economics, technology and transfer of technology, which is to be submitted to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its third session, by bringing these activities into line with the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, in its field of competence;

so Of!icia/ Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/9625).

To prepare, in consultation with other organizations of the United Nations system, a study to include recommendations for putting into practice, at the earliest possible time, the concept of ecodevelopment as a planning method enabling developing countries to achieve accelerated and self-sustained development,

taking into account, inter alia, their economic, political, social, geographical, ecological and regional conditions, for submission to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fourth session;

To draw the attention of Governments to the "catalytic role" of the United Nations Environment Programme approved by the Governing Council at its second session, 61 as an effective means for the Programme to provide adequate solutions, particularly in the short term, to problems affecting a country or group of countries of one region or of different regions, and to submit a report to the Governing Council at its fourth session on the problems with respect to which this role could be utilized, principally for the benefit of developing countries;

To accelerate consultations with the World Meteorological Organization and with jurists, scientists and other experts for the purpose of developing a set of general principles and operative guidelines on studies for man-induced weather modification and related environmental phenomena, including their operational and research aspects, and to report to the Governing Council on the subject at its fourth session;

(!) To submit to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, at its third session, a preliminary report on the legal aspects to which the organizations in the United Nations system have given attention, within the framework of their activities, and which may contribute to the identification, formulation and development of principles of international environmental law;

To give equal priority in the implementation and development of the Global Environment Monitoring System to those environmental parameters different from pollutants which will facilitate the solution or prevention of environmental problems that affect or may affect principally developing countries;

To bring the International Referral System to the attention of Member States as a means of enabling the Programme to effect the timely exchange and provision of information among themselves, or with the intergovernmental and private organizations, for the solution of environmental problems affecting them;

To consult the Governments of developing countries regarding the problems and matters related to the environment on which they would be interested in receiving training and technical assistance, and to submit a report, .with the replies received, to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fourth session, together with a summary of the experience achieved thus far in this area, in order to formulate a training and assistance program~e based on the specific needs of that group of countries;

Reaffirms the importance of co-ordination and active co-operation between the United Nations Environme_nt Programme, the specialized agencies, the lnternat1onal Atomic Energy Agency and other organizations of the United Nations system in their activities General Assembly-Twenty-ninth Seuion in order to ensure effective attention and action with regard to the environmental needs and problems of Member States, especially developing countries, as requested by them.

En¥ironment Programme I. Decides that a9\!oluntary international habitat and human settlements foundation05 be established as from 1 January 197' in accordance with the provisions set forth below:

publication, Sak;s (United Nations No.: E.73.ILA.14 and corrigeTJ.dum), chap. II, sect. B.

5r, Now called ··united Nations Habitat and Human Settle- 01 Jbid., annex I, decision 5 (II) of 21 March 1974. ments Foundation".

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