International Co-Operation in the Field of the Environment

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1980–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/229

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/229	International co-operation in the field of the environment	2,027	8%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/184	International co-operation in the field of the environment	349	21%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/200	International co-operation in the field of the environment	233	11%Compare
1984	A/RES/38/165	International co-operation in the field of the environment	1,039	15%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/217	International co-operation in the field of the environment	1,216	17%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Budget Contributions Conferences Environment Inter-Agency Cooperation International Cooperation

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Requests all appropriate organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to continue to co-operate with the United Nations Environment Programme in the preparation of the System-Wide Medium-Term Environment Programme and the Perspective Document;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to take into consideration in its programme activities the provisions of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade and, through its coordinating and catalytic role, to continue to promote the concept of sustainable ecological development, in particular through the promotion and further elaboration of ways and means for the integration of environmental concerns in development programmes and projects;

Endorses the recommendations of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on the work of the United Nations system on the interrelationships between resources, environment, peopie and development, as they appear in the annex to its report on the work of its eighth session, as well as those put forward by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1980/49, and requests the Secretary-General to take the requisite steps for their implementation~

Stresses the importance of the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, to be held in 1981, and calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme to contribute actively to and participate in the preparatory work for the Conference:

Welcomes the growing co-operation between the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and urges them to intensify that co-operation through, inter a/ia, joint meetings of their bureaux with the Executive Directors of both organizations on an annual basis;

Also welcomes the decision of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to convene, prior to its tenth session, an ad hoe meeting of governmental experts in environmental law, welcomes the offer by the Government of Uruguay to serve as host for the meeting and urges Governments and the Governing Council to take all the necessary measures for the preparation of that meeting, including the provision of adequate consultancy;

Further welcomes the launching, in March l 980, of the World Conservation Strategy and urges all Governments and international organizations, as well as organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to take it into account in developing their policies and programmes;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to take the necessary measures, in particular within the context of the systemwide medium-term environment programme, to safeguard, inter alia, the efficient use of the Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme and the stimulating, co-ordinating and catalytic role played by the United Nations Environment Programme in reviewing the financial support to ongoing activities and through its careful and selective policy with respect to new commitments for a balanced progrnmme;

"' Oj]lcial Records of the General Assemb/p, T/1ir1y-.[ljilt Session, Supp/eme/11 No, 25 (A/35/25), paras. 171 and 172.

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Strongly appeals to all contributing Governments to make every effort to pledge, in 1980, substantial increases in their contributions for 198 I and to those Governments that have not yet contributed to the Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme to pledge to do so in 1980, in order that the agreed target for the period 1978-1981 may be reached;

Invites Governments to consider proposals whereby additional contributions to the Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme would be used for measures dealing with serious environmental problems in developing countries, taking into account the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 34/ I 88 of 18 December I 979, and requests the Governing Council of the Programme to report thereon to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1981;

Decides to convene, in I 982, a session of a special character of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, open to all States, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held at Stpckholm from 5 to 16 June 1972, at the same place and immediately prior to the tenth regular session of the Governing Council, and invites Governments to be represented at that session at a high political level:

Decides that at the session of a special character the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme should review the major achievements in the implementation of the Action Plan for the Human Environment, adopted at Stockholm, 133 and make recommendations with respect to the major envi: ronmental trends to be addressed by the Programme over the forthcoming ten years;

Invites the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to proceed, in consultation with Governments, with the preparation of the above-mentioned session and to present to the Governing Council, at its ninlh session, a comprehensive report on all matters relevant to the organization, agenda and financial implications of the session, including proposals as to the dates and venue of the two sessions.

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