Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

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, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 2010–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/138

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/138	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,545	76%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/206	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,698	78%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/153	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,333	79%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/165	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	5,458	42%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/205	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	4,474	82%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2017

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2017	A/72/82	Action Plan for Integrating Sustainable Development Practices into Secretariat-wide Operations and Facilities Management report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/71/228

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Capacity Building Climate Climate Change Conferences Developing Countries Economic Development Economic Growth Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Financial Resources International Cooperation Mexico Poverty Mitigation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Social Development Sustainable Development Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Stresses the seriousness of climate change, and calls upon States to work cooperatively towards achieving the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1 through the urgent implementation of its provisions;

Notes that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,3 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;

Takes note of the outcome of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, hosted by the Government of Poland from 1 to 12 December 2008;7

Takes note with appreciation of the offer of the Government of Denmark to host the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the fifth session of the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December 2009;

Notes the ongoing parallel work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol, and that the respective parties to the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol call for the completion of this work;

Encourages Member States to approach Copenhagen with ambition, optimism and determination, with a view to making the United Nations Climate Change Conference a success;

Takes note with appreciation, in this regard, of the offer of the Government of Mexico to host the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the sixth session of the Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in Mexico City in 2010;

Urges parties to the Convention, and invites parties to the Kyoto Protocol to the Convention, to continue to make use of the information contained in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their work;

Recognizes that climate change poses serious risks and challenges to all countries, particularly developing countries, especially the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and countries in Africa, including those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, and calls upon States to take urgent global action to address climate change in accordance with the principles identified in the Convention, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, and in this regard urges all countries to fully implement their commitments under the Convention, to take effective and concrete actions and measures at all levels and to enhance international cooperation in the framework of the Convention;

Reaffirms that efforts to address climate change in a manner that enhances the sustainable development and sustained economic growth of the developing countries and the eradication of poverty should be carried out by promoting the integration of the three components of sustainable development, namely, economic development, social development and environmental protection, as interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars, in an integrated, coordinated and balanced manner;

Recognizes the urgency of providing financial and technical resources, as well as capacity-building and access to and transfer of technology, to assist those developing countries adversely affected by climate change;

Invites the international community to fulfil the commitments made during the fourth replenishment and to secure a successful fifth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund, without prejudice to ongoing discussions on financial mechanisms under the Convention;

Requests the Secretary-General to make provisions for the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and its subsidiary bodies in his proposal for the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011;

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,¹⁵ and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹⁶ and encourages close 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.

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;

Invites the secretariat of the Framework Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties;

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

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