Harmony with Nature

A/RES/72/223View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19h Harmony with nature, published in 2018.

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?

4 subjects

Conferences Environmental Law Nature Conservation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on Harmony with Nature;¹¹

¹¹A/72/175.

Invites Member States to consider existing studies and, as appropriate, the findings and recommendations of the reports of the Secretary-General on Harmony with Nature,¹² of the experts’ summary report of the first virtual dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, addressing Earth jurisprudence,¹³ and of the interactive dialogues of the Assembly on Harmony with Nature in the promotion of the balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development through harmony with nature;

¹²A/65/314, A/66/302, A/67/317, A/68/325, A/68/325/Corr.1, A/69/322, A/70/268 and A/72/175.

¹³See A/71/266.

Requests the President of the General Assembly to convene, at the seventy-second 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 23 April 2018, with the participation of Member States, United Nations organizations, independent experts and other stakeholders, to inspire citizens and societies to reconsider how they interact with the natural world and to improve the ethical basis of the relationship between humankind and the Earth in the context of sustainable development, and to discuss sustainable production and consumption patterns in harmony with nature, so as to ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature, as called for in target 12.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals;

Decides to continue observing International Mother Earth Day annually on 22 April, requests the Secretary-General to provide continuing support, and encourages Member States to observe the International Day at the national level;

Takes note with appreciation of the agreement between the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat,¹⁴ invites Member States to contribute to the earmarked activities related to Harmony with Nature under the trust fund of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, aiming, inter alia, at the participation of independent experts in the interactive dialogues of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, and invites relevant stakeholders to contribute to the earmarked activities related to Harmony with Nature;

¹⁴Available from www.harmonywithnatureun.org/trustfund.html.

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to use the website on Harmony with Nature, managed by the Division for Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, to gather information and contributions on ideas and activities to promote a holistic approach to sustainable development in harmony with nature and to advance the integration of interdisciplinary scientific work, including success stories on the use of traditional knowledge and on existing national legislation;

Calls for holistic and integrated approaches to sustainable development, in its three dimensions, 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, as appropriate:

To further build up a knowledge network in order to advance a holistic conceptualization of sustainable development in its three dimensions 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 support for and recognition of the fundamental interconnections between humankind and nature;

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

Encourages all countries to develop and strengthen the quality and quantity of basic national 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 notes the ongoing work of the Statistical Commission on a work programme to develop broader measures of progress and to conduct a technical review of existing efforts in this area;¹⁵

¹⁵Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 4 (E/2013/24), chap. I, sect. C, decision 44/114.

Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Harmony with Nature”, unless otherwise agreed.

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