Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

A/RES/47/190View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 79Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, published in 1992.

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9 topics

Climate Change Conferences Declarations Financing Forest Conservation Forest Management Genetic Resources Sustainable Development Treaties

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8 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; 1/ 2.

Endorses the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, l/ Agenda 21 1/ and the Non-legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests,!/ as adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development on 14 June 1992;

Notes with satisfaction that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change~/ and the Convention on Biological Diversity were opened for signature and were signed by a large number of States at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and stresses the need for these Conventions to come into force as soon as possible;

Urges Governments and organs, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system, as well as other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to take the necessary action to give effective follow-up to the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21 and the Non-legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests;

Calls upon all concerned to implement all commitments, agreements and recommendations reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, especially by ensuring provision of the means of implementation under section IV of Agenda 21, J/ stressing in particular the importance of financial resources and mechanisms, the transfer of environmentally sound technology, cooperation and capacity-building, and international institutional arrangements, in order to achieve sustainable development in all countries;

Takes note with appreciation of the initial financial commitments made at its forty-seventh session by some developed countries and urges those countries which have not done so to announce their commitments in accordance with paragraph 33.19 of Agenda 21; 1/ 7.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-eighth and subsequent sessions an item entitled "Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development";

l/ Ibid., chap.I, resolution 1, annex I.

1/ Ibid., annex II.

!/ Ibid., annex III.

~/ See A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.l and Corr.1.

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Also decides to convene, not later than 1997, a special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of Agenda 21 and, in this context, requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session a report containing recommendations for consideration by the Assembly on the format, scope and organizational aspects of such a special session.

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