Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 148 Conservation of climate as part of the common heritage of mankind, published in 1989.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 1989–2008

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/62/86

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/RES/62/86	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	1,465	51%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/201	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	1,151	64%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/197	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	914	72%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/234	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	770	68%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/243	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	698	61%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Climate Change Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Environmental Protection Global Warming Inter-Agency Cooperation International Instruments

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Recognizes that climate change is a common concern of mankind, since climate is an essential condition which sustains life on earth;

Determines that necessary and timely action should be taken to deal with climate change within a global framework;

Reaffirms its resolution 42/184 of 11 December 1987, in which, inter alia, it agreed with the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme that the Programme should attach importance to the problem of global climate change and that the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme should ensure that the Programme co-operates closely with the World Meteorological Organization and the lnternational Council of Scientific Unions and maintains an active, influential role in the World Climate Programme;

Considers that activities in support of the World Chmate Programme, approved by the Congress and Executive Council of the World Meteorological Organization and elaborated in the system-wide medium-term environment programme for the period 1990-1995, which was approved by the Governing Council of the United Nations

Environment Programme, 7 should be accorded high priority by the relevant organs and programmes of the United Nations system;

Endorses the action of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in jointly establishing an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to provide internationally coordinated scientific assessments of the magnitude, timing and potential environmental and socio-economic impact of climate change and realistic response strategies, and expresses appreciation for the work already initiated by the Panel;

Urges Governments, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and scientific institutions to treat climate change as a priority issue, to undertake and promote specific,

co-operative action-oriented programmes and research so as to increase understanding on all sources and causes of climate change, including its regional aspects and specific time-frames as well as the cause and effect relationship of human activities and climate, and to contribute, as appropriate, with human and financia) resources to efforts to protect the global climate;

Ca/Is upan all relevant organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to support the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

Encourages the convening of conferences on climate change, particularly on global warming, at the national, regional and global levels in order to make the international community better aware of the importance of dealing effectively and in a timely manner with all aspects of climate change resulting from certain human activities;

Ca/Is upan Governments and intergovernmental organizations to collaborate in making every effort to prevent detrimental effects on climate and activities which affect the ecological balance, and also calls upon nongovernmental organizations, industry and other productive sectors to play their due role;

Requests the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization and the Executive Director ofthe United Nations Environment Programme, utilizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, immediately to initiate action leading, as soon as possible, to a comprehensive review and recommendations with respect to:

The state of knowledge of the science of climate and climatic change;

Programmes and studies on the social and eco- (b) nomic impact of climate change, including global warming;

Possible response strategies to delay, limit or mitigate the impact of adverse climate change;

The identification and possible strengthening of relevant existing international legal instruments having a

bearing on climate;

Elements for inclusion in a possible future international convention on climate;

A/so requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Governments, as well as intergovernmental organizations,

nongovernmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and well-established scientific institutions with expertise in matters concerning climate;

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to

plementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include this question in the provisional agenda of its forty-fourth session, without prejudice to the application of the principie of biennialization.

6 See Unired Naiions Environment Programme. Annual Report of the 5 A/43/755.

Executive Director. 1985 (UNEP/GC.14/2), chap. IV, paras. B8-140.

8 Resolution 1514(XV)

9 Report of the lnternational Conference on the Question of Palestinc,

Geneva, 29 August-7 September 1983 (United Nations publication, Sales 7 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session,

No. E.83.1.21), chap. I, sect. B. Supplement No. 25 (A/43/25), annex, decision SS.1/3.

IO A/43/367-E/l 988/82 and Corr. l and 2.

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