Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

A/RES/61/201View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 53d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 2007.

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?

10 subjects

Climate Climate Change Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Environmental Agreements Liaison Offices Report Preparation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

13 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 the commitments, initiatives and processes undertaken within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as the Kyoto Protocol theretoError: Reference source not found for those which are parties to it, to meet the ultimate objective of the Convention;

Also notes that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol welcome the entry into force of the Protocol on 16 February 2005 and strongly urge States that have not yet done so to ratify it in a timely manner;

Stresses that the seriousness of climate change argues for the implementation of the provisions of the Framework Convention;

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

Takes note of the outcome of the eleventhError: Reference source not found and twelfth sessions¹⁶ of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention and the firstError: Reference source not found and secondError: Reference source not found sessions of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol;

¹⁶FCCC/CP/2006/4-FCCC/KP/CMP/2006/8.

Takes note with appreciation of the outcome of the fourth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund, including the pledges made by the international community to the Trust Fund at the third Global Environment Facility Assembly, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 29 and 30 August 2006, and stresses the importance of the fulfilment of the commitments;

Also takes note with appreciation of the hosting by the Government of Kenya of the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention and the second session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Nairobi from 6 to 17 November 2006, and further takes note with appreciation of the offer of the Government of Indonesia to host the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties and the third session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in Bali from 3 to 14 December 2007;

Notes the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Framework Convention, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,¹⁷ and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹⁸ and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status;

¹⁷United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

¹⁸Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Endorses the continuation of the institutional linkage of the secretariat of the Framework Convention to the United Nations until such time as a review is deemed necessary by the Conference of the Parties or the General Assembly;

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

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