Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

A/RES/57/257View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 87c Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 2003.

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?

6 subjects

Climate Change Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Environmental Agreements Report Preparation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Calls upon States to work cooperatively towards achieving the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;Error: Reference source not found

Notes that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2 strongly urge the States that have not yet done so to ratify it in a timely manner;

Takes note of the Delhi Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its eighth session;

Notes the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and officers of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa,⁹ and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹⁰ and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status;

⁹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

¹⁰Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Invites the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to report in a timely manner to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties;

Invites the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental conventions, when setting the dates of their meetings, to take into consideration the schedule of meetings of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development so as to ensure the adequate representation of developing countries at those meetings;

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

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