Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on Its 25th Session

A/RES/64/204View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 53g Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 25th session, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2008–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/203

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/203	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 26th session	583	26%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/204	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 25th session	1,273	34%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/195	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 24th session	1,103	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Capacity Building Cooperation Between Organizations Coordination Within UN System Developing Countries Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries Economies in Transition Environment Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Protection Financial Resources Indonesia Location of Offices Mercury Nairobi (Kenya)Science and Technology Capability Technical Cooperation

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15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-fifth session⁸ and the decisions contained therein;⁹

⁸Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/64/25).

⁹Ibid., annex I.

Welcomes the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Environmental Programme, and encourages the further strengthening of efforts, to shift emphasis from delivery of outputs to achievement of results within its budget and programme of work, and in this regard takes note of the approval of the programme of work and the budget for the period 2010–2011;

Underlines the need to further advance and fully implement the Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity-building¹⁰ with a view to achieving its objectives in the areas of capacity-building and technology support for developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and in this regard welcomes the decision to mainstream the Bali Strategic Plan as an integral part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s medium-term strategy for the period 2010–2013, invites relevant United Nations funds and programmes and the specialized agencies and multilateral environmental agreements to consider mainstreaming the Bali Strategic Plan in their overall activities, and calls upon Governments and other stakeholders in a position to do so to provide the necessary funding and technical assistance to further advance and fully implement the Bali Strategic Plan;

¹⁰See UNEP/GC.23/6/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex.

Requests the United Nations Environment Programme to deepen its cooperation with related United Nations agencies, regions, subregions and existing South-South cooperation initiatives to develop joint activities and synergies of capacity in advancing South-South cooperation in support of capacity-building and technology support in the context of the Bali Strategic Plan and as reflected in the medium-term strategy for the period 2010–2013;

Stresses the importance of the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, particularly through its Quick Start Programme, and invites Governments, regional economic integration organizations, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to engage actively and cooperate closely to support the Strategic Approach implementation activities of the United Nations Environment Programme, including by providing adequate resources;

Takes note with appreciation of the offer of the Government of Indonesia to host the eleventh special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum from 24 to 26 February 2010 in Bali, Indonesia;

Welcomes the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions to hold a simultaneous extraordinary session of the Conference of the Parties on 22 and 23 February 2010 in Bali immediately before the eleventh special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum;

Reaffirms the need, while recognizing the efforts and actions taken, to strengthen the scientific base of the United Nations Environment Programme, as recommended by the intergovernmental consultation on strengthening the scientific base of the Programme, including the reinforcement of the scientific capacity of developing countries, in the area of protection of the environment, including through the provision of adequate financial resources, and in this respect emphasizes the importance of building on the experiences gained from the preparation of different global environmental assessments as well as other relevant developments in this field;

Recognizes the global challenges posed by mercury, and in this regard takes note of the decision of the Governing Council at its twenty-fifth session to convene an intergovernmental negotiating committee with the mandate to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury;¹¹

¹¹See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/64/25), annex I, decision 25/5.

Reiterates the need for the United Nations Environment Programme to continue to conduct comprehensive, integrated and scientifically credible global environment assessments, in close consultation with Member States, in order to support decision-making processes at all levels, in the light of the continuing need for up-to-date, scientifically credible, policy-relevant information on environmental change worldwide, and in this regard encourages the Programme to undertake a comprehensive integrated global assessment, leading to the preparation of the fifth report in the Global Environment Outlook series,¹² which should inform, as appropriate, the strategic directions of the Programme;

¹²Ibid., decision 25/2.

Emphasizes the need to further enhance coordination and cooperation among the relevant United Nations organizations in the promotion of the environmental dimension of sustainable development, and to enhance the cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme and regional and subregional organizations, and welcomes the continued active participation of the Programme in the United Nations Development Group and the Environment Management Group, as well as in the United Nations “Delivering as One” exercise at the country level;

Welcomes the increased contributions to the Environment Fund, and reiterates its invitation to Governments that are in a position to do so to increase their contributions to the Environment Fund;

Reiterates the need for stable, adequate and predictable financial resources for the United Nations Environment Programme, and, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII), underlines the need to consider the adequate reflection of all the administrative and management costs of the Programme in the context of the United Nations regular budget;

Also reiterates the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of the United Nations Environment Programme, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of the Programme and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to the Programme and to the other United Nations organs and organizations in Nairobi;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its eleventh special session”.

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