Harmony with Nature

A/RES/68/216View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19h Harmony with nature, published in 2014.

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 Policy Sustainable Development Trust Funds Websites

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

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

¹⁰A/68/325 and Corr.1.

Invites Member States to consider existing studies and reports on Harmony with Nature, including the follow-up to the discussions at the interactive dialogues of the General Assembly, such as the dialogue held on 22 April 2013 on different economic approaches, in the context of sustainable development, in order to further a more ethical basis of the relationship between humanity and the Earth, and to promote further studies on this subject;

Requests the President of the General Assembly to hold a regular, inclusive and interactive dialogue, at the sixty-eighth session of the Assembly, to be held at the plenary meetings to be convened during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day on 22 April 2014, with the participation of Member States, United Nations organizations, independent experts and other stakeholders, to advance discussions on Harmony with Nature in order to promote a balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development;

Encourages giving appropriate consideration to the issue of Harmony with Nature in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;

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 once it is established;

Also recalls 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 are 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;

Invites States:

To further build up a knowledge network in order to advance a holistic conceptualization to identify different economic approaches that reflect the drivers and values of living in harmony with nature, relying on current scientific information to achieve sustainable development, and to facilitate the support and recognition of the fundamental interconnections between humanity and nature;

To promote harmony with the Earth, as found in indigenous cultures, and learn from them, and to provide support for and promote efforts being made from the national level down to the local community level to reflect the protection of nature;

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 dimensions 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 welcomes the launching by the Statistical Commission of a work programme to develop broader measures of progress,¹¹ which, based on a stocktaking exercise of current national, regional and international practices to measure progress, will conduct a technical review of existing efforts in this area, with a view to identifying best practices, and to facilitating the sharing of knowledge, especially for the benefit of developing countries;

¹¹Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 4 (E/2013/24), chap. I, sect. C, decision 44/114.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to continue the consideration of the sub-item entitled “Harmony with Nature” at its sixty-ninth session under the item entitled “Sustainable development”.

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