Takes note with satisfaction of the opening by the Secretary-General on 15 March 1979 of the Special Account for financing the implementation of the Plan of Action to Cornbat Desertification, bearing in mind the voluntary nature of that account;
2
Notes with concern the lack of adequate financia! resources for the irnplementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification and the slow progress achieved thus far;
3
Also notes with concern that no contribution to the Special Account has been made thus far;
4
Calls upon donar Govemrnents and financing organizations to contribute generously to the Special Ac- 110 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 327, No. 4714, p. 4.
120 A/CONF.74/36.
121 lbid., chap. l.
122 See Of!icial Records of the General Assembly, Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/34/25).
128 A/34/575. V. Resolutlons adopted oa the reporfll of tbe Secoad Commlttee count, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;
Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Environment Programme for its work in co-operation with Govemments and interested organizations of the United Nations system within the framework of its responsibilities as co-ordinator for the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;
6
Calls upon donar countries and interested organizations to participate actively in the work of the Consultative Group for Desertification Control and to support the projects submitted to them through the Consultative Group;
7
Requeststhe Secretary-General, in consultation with the Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session a report, on the basis of a study to be prepared by a group of high-level specialists in intemational financing to be convened by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, which will deal with:
a
A complete inventory of relevant ideas and proposals put forward in the United Nations system of possible new ways and means to finance programmes of multilateral organizations at the world level, additional to regular assessed budgets and conventional extrabudgetary resources;
b
A financia! plan and analysis outlining the components and costs of a programme to stop further desertification and identifying what is already being financed and what additional resources may be needed to meet the mínimum objectives of stopping the spread of desertification;
e
Methods for the mobilization of domestic resources;
d
The practicality of obtaining loans from Govemments and world capital markets on a concessionary basis;
e
The feasibility of the creation of a public international corporation which would attract investments from countries as well as institutions and would provide financing for suitable anti-desertification projects with non-commercial rates of retum;
f
The means for encouraging the active participation of foundations in the financing of anti-desertificatlon training and research programmes.
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