Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

A/RES/54/222View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 2000.

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

Biological Diversity Climate Change Desertification Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Institutional Machinery Scientific Cooperation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Encourages Member States that have not ratified or acceded to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 to do so with a view to bringing it into force;

Calls upon all States parties to continue to take effective steps to implement their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,1 in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities;

Encourages all countries to work constructively towards advancing the work necessary for the timely entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation;

Approves the continuation of the institutional linkage of the Convention secretariat to the United Nations, as advised by the Secretary-General and approved by the Conference of the Parties at its fifth session;5

Encourages the conferences of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 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 between the three conventions;

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.

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

Requests the Secretary-General to review the functioning of this institutional linkage not later than 31 December 2001, in consultation with the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with a view to making such modifications as may be considered desirable by both parties, and to report thereon to the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the calendar of conferences and meetings for the biennium 2000-2001 the sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies envisaged for that biennium, in accordance with the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind”.

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