International Co-Operation in the Field of the Environment

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 60United Nations Environment Programme, published in 1980.

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8 versions · 1980–1990

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4 topics

Endangered Species Environment International Cooperation Trust Funds

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10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Governing Counl. cil of the United Nations Environment Programme on the work of its seventh session;

Notes with appreciation the progress achieved by the United Nations Environment Programme in the development of a system-wide, medium-term environment programme and the sustained co-operation of the organizations of the United Nations system in this regard;

Invites the Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to pursue its work on the technical aspects of environmental assessment and the integration of environmental factors in the development process;

Requests appropriate multilateral financial institutions to consider, within the framework of the over-all financing of projects in developing countries, at their request, the costs of the studies that might be required on the environmental aspects of such projects;

Stresses the need for the United Nations Environment Programme to increase the resources available for its projects in the developing countries, in accordance with their requirements and priorities, bearing in mind the need for regional balance and environmental problems arising from under-development and poverty, as well as the balance between global and regional programmes as identified in the relevant decisions of the Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme;

W elcomes the collaboration of the United Nations Environment Programme with the Intemational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the World Wildlife Fund in the development of guidelines to help Govemments in the management of their living resources through the formulation of a world conservation strategy, to be launched in March 1980;

Invites Member States, as appropriate, to ratify and implement the international conventions and pro-

188 Ofjicial Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/34/25).

13• /bid., Thirty-fourth Session, Second Committee 24th meeting, paras. 1-25.

' 135 A/34/296.

General Assembly tocols designed to protect the environment in every respect and further urges Governments to promote the conclusion of such conventions and protocols;

Calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme to co-operate fully in the preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, to be held in 1981;

Welcomes the establishment of the Regional Trust Fund for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution and the Trust Fund for the <:onventi?n on International Trade in Endangered Spec1es of Wild Fauna and Flora;

Appeals to all Governments to contribute_ or increase their contribution to the Fund of the Umted Nations Environment Programme so as to meet the approved target set by the Governing Council in its decision 6/13 of 24 May 1978.130

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