Session of a Special Character of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

A/RES/37/219View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1983.

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2 versions · 1982–1983

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1983	A/RES/37/219	Session of a special character of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	990	16%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/189	Session of a special character of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	867	–

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6 subjects

Declarations Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection Programme Implementation Programmes of Action

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14 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its session of a special character;159 Expresses its appreciation of the positive manner in 2. which Governments responded to its invitation to participate in the session at the highest political level;

Recognizes that the session of a special character 3. represented a unique opportunity for Governments to reemphasize their continued commitment and support to the cause of the environment and the United Nations Environment Programme;

Endorses the Nairobi Declaration,162 in which the world community, inter alia, reaffirmed its commitment to the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment1f>1 and the Action Plan for the Human Environment163 adopted at Stockholm, as well as its support for strengthening the United Nations Environment Programme as the major catalytic instrument for global environmental co-operation, and urged all Governments and peoples of the world to discharge their historical responsibility to ensure that the planet Earth is passed over to future generations in a condition that guarantees a life in human dignity for all;

Further endorses:

The assessment by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its session of a special character of the major achievements and failures in the implementation of the Action Plan for the Human Environment and its conclusions that fair to good progress had been made in implementing some of the elements of the Action Plan while, in respect of other elements, the record had been very modest;

The identification at the above-mentioned session of:

the perceptions of environmental issues that had evolved over the past decade;

160 Resolution 35/56, annex. Stockholm, 5-16 June 1972 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.II.A.14 and Corr.l), chap. I.

Stockholm, 5-/6 June /972 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.73.II.A.14 and COIT.I). chap. 1I (ii)

The major environmental trends, potential problems and priorities for action by the United Nations system, during the period 1982-1992, co-ordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme in accordance with its catalytic mandate and role;

The basic orientation of the United Nations Environment Programme for 1982-1992, as recommended by the Governing Council at the above-mentioned session;

The conclusions reached at the above-mentioned session with respect to the institutional arrangements for the United Nations Environment Programme;

Invites all Governments, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations to ensure that the priorities for action, agreed upon by the Governing Council at its session of a special character in section III of its resolution 1,164 are accorded high priority within their respective programmes at both the national and regional levels;

Also invites the governing bodies of the relevant organizations of the United Nations system to integrate the major environmental trends over the next ten years effectively in their action plans and, on the basis of those trends, in close co-operation with the United Nations Environment Programme, to draw up appropriate measures for environmental protection, particularly in developing countries, with due regard to available resources;

Reiterates the importance it attaches to the devel- 8. opment of the Environmental Perspective to the year 2000 and beyond, and requests the Governing Council at its eleventh session to make, on the basis of a report by the Executive Director, concrete recommendations to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1983, on the modalities for preparing the Environmental Perspective;

Supports the view expressed at the session of a spe- 9. cial character that the human environment would greatly benefit from an international atmosphere of peace and security, free from the threat of any war;

Emphasizes that the implementation of the priorities for action recommended by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its session of a special character requires adequate financial resources and, in view of this, appeals to all Governments, particularly of developed countries, to respond positively and increase their contribution to the Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme.

//3th plenary meeting 20 December /982

". Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (AJ37125), part one.

16' Repon ofthe United Nations Conference on the HU11UJn Environment,

'62 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtv-seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (N37/25), part one, annex 11.

.64 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-seventh Ses- '63 Report ofthe United Nations Conference on the Human Environment,

sion, Supplement No. 25 (N37/25), part one, annex 1

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