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Enhancing Complementarities Among International Instruments Related to Environment and Sustainable Development

A/RES/55/198View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95Environment and sustainable development, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2000–2001
  • 2001A/RES/55/198Enhancing complementarities among international instruments related to environment and sustainable developmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2000A/RES/54/217Enhancing complementarities among international instruments related to environment and sustainable development

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

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What subjects does this mandate have?

13 topics
Biological DiversityClimate ChangeCoordination Within UN SystemDesertificationDocumentsDrought ControlEnvironmental AgreementsEnvironmental ManagementInformation ExchangeInternational InstrumentsReport PreparationSubsidiary BodiesSustainable Development

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on international institutional arrangements related to environment and sustainable development;
2
Welcomes the work undertaken by the secretariats of the instruments related to environment and sustainable development and other relevant organizations to implement resolution 54/217;
3
Encourages the conferences of the parties to, and the secretariats of, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, and other international instruments related to environment and sustainable development, as well as relevant organizations, especially the United Nations Environment Programme, including, as appropriate, the involvement of the environmental management group, to continue their work for enhancing complementarities among them with full respect for the status of the secretariats of the conventions and the autonomous decision-making prerogatives of the conferences of the parties to the conventions concerned, and to strengthen cooperation with a view to facilitating progress in the implementation of those conventions at the international, regional and national levels and to report thereon to their respective conferences of the parties;
4
Also encourages the conferences of the parties, assisted by their secretariats, to coordinate the timing of their sessions and the sessions of their subsidiary bodies, taking into account the organization of work of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development;
5
Further encourages the conferences of the parties to promote the streamlining of national reporting;
6
Invites the secretariats of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, and other international instruments related to environment and sustainable development, as well as relevant organizations, to provide further information on their work to implement resolution 54/217 and other complementary activities in their contributions to the preparatory process for the review of the implementation of Agenda 21, to be carried out in 2002;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to take into account the above-mentioned work in the preparation of documentation and other preparatory activities for the review of the implementation of Agenda 21, to be carried out in 2002.

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