Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

A/RES/60/197View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 52d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 2006.

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?

14 subjects

Africa Biological Diversity Calendar of Meetings Climate Change Desertification Developing Countries Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Liaison Offices Programme Budgeting Report Preparation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies

What’s in this document?

10 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 ChangeError: Reference source not found welcome the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol on 16 February 2005 and strongly urge States that have not yet done so to ratify it in a timely manner;

Notes with interest the activities undertaken under the flexible mechanisms established by the Kyoto Protocol;

Takes note of the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth session,Error: Reference source not found and calls for their implementation;

Notes the importance of the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Montreal, Canada, from 28 November to 9 December 2005;

Also notes the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and offices 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 Africa¹⁵ and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹⁶ and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status;

¹⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

¹⁶Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Requests the Secretary-General to make provisions for the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its subsidiary bodies in his proposal for the programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007;

Invites the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first 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 sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind”.

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