Harmony with Nature

A/RES/67/214View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20h Harmony with nature, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2010–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/210

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/210	Harmony with nature	3,279	81%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/169	Harmony with nature	2,840	80%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/220	Harmony with nature	2,436	90%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/224	Harmony with nature	2,277	58%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/223	Harmony with nature	1,964	78%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2010–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/276	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/210
2024	A/79/253	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/169
2022	A/77/244	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/220
2020	A/75/266	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/224
2019	A/74/236	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/235

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Earth Environmental Protection Information Exchange Sustainable Development Websites

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the third report of the Secretary-General on Harmony with Nature;¹⁰

¹⁰A/67/317.

Requests the President of the General Assembly to convene, at the sixty-seventh session of the Assembly, an interactive dialogue to be held at the plenary meetings to be convened during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day on 22 April 2013, with the participation of Member States, United Nations organizations, independent experts and other stakeholders, to advance discussions on economic approaches, in the context of sustainable development, to further a more ethical basis for the relationship between humanity and the Earth;

Recalls its resolutions requesting the Secretary-General to establish a trust fund for the participation of independent experts in the interactive dialogue to be held at the plenary meetings to be convened during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day, and in this regard invites Member States and other relevant stakeholders to consider contributing to this trust fund;

Welcomes the launching of the Harmony with Nature website on the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development by the secretariat of the Conference and the Division for Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to make use of the existing website maintained by the Division by gathering information and contributions on ideas and activities to promote a holistic approach to sustainable development in harmony with nature being undertaken to advance the integration of scientific interdisciplinary work, including success stories on the use of traditional knowledge and on existing national legislation;

Recognizes that planet Earth and its ecosystems are our home and that “Mother Earth” is a common expression in a number of countries and regions, and that some countries recognize the rights of nature in the context of the promotion of sustainable development, and is convinced that, in order to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations, it is necessary to promote harmony with nature;

Calls for holistic and integrated approaches to sustainable development that will guide humanity to live in harmony with nature and lead to efforts to restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystems;

Encourages all countries and the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to develop and strengthen the quality and quantity of basic statistical data on the three pillars of sustainable development, and invites the international community and the pertinent bodies of the United Nations system to assist the efforts of developing countries by providing capacity-building and technical support;

Recognizes the need for broader measures of progress to complement gross domestic product in order to better inform policy decisions, and in this regard recalls the request made to the Statistical Commission, in paragraph 38 of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,Error: Reference source not found that the Commission, in consultation with relevant entities of the United Nations system and other relevant organizations, launch a programme of work in this area, building on existing initiatives;

Underlines, in this regard, the need to expedite the launch of this programme of work;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, to be included also as an input for the discussion of the post-2015 development agenda, taking into account the three dimensions of sustainable development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Harmony with Nature”.

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