Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

A/RES/50/115View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 96d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 1989–2008

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/62/86

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2008	A/RES/62/86	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	1,465	51%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/201	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	1,151	64%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/197	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	914	72%Compare
2005	A/RES/59/234	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	770	68%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/243	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind	698	61%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Budget Contributions Calendar of Meetings Climate Change Conferences Extrabudgetary Financing Financing Funds Germany Institution Building Institutional Machinery Location of Offices Subsidiary Bodies Treaties Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of:

The report of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a Framework Convention on Climate Change on its eleventh session;⁸

⁸A/AC.237/91 and Add.1.

The final report prepared on behalf of the Committee, by its Chairman, on the completion of the Committee's work;⁹

⁹A/50/536, annex.

The report of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on its first session¹⁰ and its presentation on behalf of the President of the Conference;

¹⁰FCCC/CP/1995/7 and Add.1.

Endorses the institutional linkage between the Convention secretariat and the United Nations, as advised by the Secretary-General and adopted by the Conference of the Parties; 4/

Requests the Secretary-General to review the functioning of this institutional linkage not later than 31 December 1999, in consultation with the Conference of the Parties, with a view to making such modifications as may be considered desirable by both parties and to report thereon to the General Assembly;

Notes that the Conference of the Parties has decided to accept the offer of the Government of Germany to host the Convention secretariat¹¹ and expresses its appreciation for the support offered by the future host Government for the relocation and effective functioning of the Convention secretariat;

¹¹FCCC/CP/1995/7/Add.1, decision 16/CP.1.

Notes with appreciation contributions made to the extrabudgetary funds established under paragraphs 10 and 20 of General Assembly resolution 45/212, and maintained in accordance with its resolution 47/195;

Urges Member States that are Parties to the Convention to pay promptly and in full for each of the years 1996 and 1997, in accordance with the indicative scale adopted by consensus by the Conference of the Parties,¹² the contributions required for the trust fund for the core budget of the Convention envisaged in paragraph 13 of its financial procedures, so as to ensure continuity in the cash flow required to finance the ongoing work of the Conference of the Parties, the subsidiary bodies and the Convention secretariat;

¹²Ibid., decision 15/CP.1, annex II.

Calls upon Member States that are Parties to the Convention to also contribute generously to the trust fund for participation in the Convention process envisaged in paragraph 15 of its financial procedures, as well as to the trust funds envisaged for supplementary activities under the Convention;¹³

¹³Ibid., decision 15/CP.1, annex I, and decision 18/CP.1.

Decides to include in the calendar of conferences and meetings for 1996-1997 the sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies envisaged for that biennium entailing twelve weeks of conference-servicing facilities;

Requests the Secretary-General to make the necessary arrangements to include in the calendar of conferences and meetings for the biennium 1998-1999 those sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies that the Conference may need to convene in that period;

Takes note of the transitional arrangement for administrative support to the Convention secretariat, outlined in the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 49/120, with particular reference to the implications arising from the report of the Conference of the Parties, on its first session,¹⁴ which should facilitate the establishment and relocation of the Convention secretariat and assist it in addressing any initial financial and personnel problems that may be encountered within this context, and also takes note of the financing arrangements contained in paragraphs 8 and 9 above, and requests the Secretary-General to review these arrangements towards the end of the biennium 1996-1997 and to report upon the results of this review to the Assembly at its fifty-second session;

¹⁴A/50/716, paras. 36-38.

Notes that the Secretary-General intends:

To transfer the end-1995 balance in the trust fund for the negotiating process established under paragraph 20 of General Assembly resolution 45/212 into the trust fund for the core budget of the Convention envisaged in paragraph 13 of its financial procedures;

To transfer the end-1995 balance in the special voluntary fund for participation in the negotiating process established under paragraph 10 of the same resolution into the trust fund for participation in the Convention process envisaged in paragraph 15 of the aforementioned financial procedures;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind".

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