Enhancing Complementarities Among International Instruments Related to Environment and Sustainable Development

A/RES/54/217View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 100 Environment and sustainable development and 100a Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2000–2001

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/55/198

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2001	A/RES/55/198	Enhancing complementarities among international instruments related to environment and sustainable development	517	27%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/217	Enhancing complementarities among international instruments related to environment and sustainable development	817	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Biological Diversity Capacity Building Climate Change Coordination Within UN System Desertification Drought Control Environmental Agreements Environmental Management Human Settlements Information Exchange Inter-Agency Cooperation International Instruments Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Encourages the conferences of the parties to, and the permanent secretariats of, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,⁷ the Convention on Biological Diversity⁸ and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa,⁹ to examine further appropriate opportunities and measures to strengthen their complementarities and to improve scientific assessments of ecological linkages among the three conventions;

⁷A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.

⁸See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992.

⁹A/49/84/Add.2, annex, appendix II.

Stresses the need for the integrated consideration of linkages, both among sectors and between sectoral and cross-sectoral aspects of Agenda 21;4

Emphasizes the importance of facilitating and supporting the enhancement of linkages and coordination within and among environmental and environment-related conventions, inter alia, by the United Nations Environment Programme, with full respect for the status of the secretariats of the conventions and the autonomous decision-making prerogatives of the conferences of the parties to the conventions concerned, and, in this regard, supports the proposal of the Secretary-General concerning the establishment of an environmental management group for the purpose of enhancing inter-agency coordination in the areas of environment and human settlements, as stipulated in resolution 53/242;

Notes with appreciation all the progress made in the implementation of resolution 53/186;

Encourages the secretariats of the various environmental and environment-related conventions and international organizations, with full respect for the status of the secretariats of the conventions and the autonomous decision-making prerogatives of the conferences of the parties to the conventions concerned, to strengthen cooperation with a view to facilitating progress in the implementation of those conventions at the international, regional and national levels by:

Identifying opportunities for complementarity of activities undertaken to facilitate the implementation of commitments made by the parties to the various conventions;

Encouraging the carrying out of further scientific analyses by relevant international organizations, such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the secretariats of the conventions, their subsidiary bodies, the United Nations Secretariat and relevant international scientific bodies, in order to identify possible activities with potential multiple benefits and to bring them to the attention of the conferences of the parties;

Promoting more effective and coherent support from international organizations and financial institutions and mechanisms for national action aimed at the implementation of the conventions, in particular in the area of capacity-building;

Addressing practical issues, such as more effective exchange of information, enhanced awareness-raising and streamlining of national reporting;

Supporting, upon request, efforts being made at the national level towards adopting an integrated and holistic approach to the implementation of environmental and environment-related conventions;

Bringing relevant issues to the attention of the General Assembly and relevant intergovernmental bodies for the consideration of Member States and the formulation of agreed policy recommendations, with a view to promoting a more holistic approach;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme and the executive secretaries of the conventions, to prepare a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit it to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session for consideration under the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”.

Reissued for technical reasons.

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