Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on Its 21st Session

A/RES/56/193View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98 Environment and sustainable development, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2002–2006

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/60/189

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2006	A/RES/60/189	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 23rd session	906	32%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/209	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 22nd session	782	25%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/193	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 21st session	461	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2004

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2004	A/59/262	Universal membership of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/58/209

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Costs Environmental Management Financial Resources Funds Governance Information Exchange Programme Implementation Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-first session;⁴

⁴Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/56/25).

Welcomes the efforts already made to realize the objectives of the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme,Error: Reference source not found supports the early and full implementation of General Assembly resolution 53/242 of 28 July 1999, and requests that the reports on the work of the Environmental Management Group be made available to Member States and members of specialized agencies;

Reiterates the invitation to the international environmental governance process initiated by decision 21/21 of 9 February 2001 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme⁵ to submit its progress report to the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development at its second session, to be held in New York from 28 January to 8 February 2002, and to submit the final results to the Committee at its third session, to be held in New York from 25 March to 5 April 2002, so that it may be fully considered in the preparatory process, and notes with interest the ongoing work of the open-ended intergovernmental group of ministers or their representatives on international environmental governance with respect to the comprehensive policy-oriented assessment of existing institutional weaknesses, as well as future needs and options for strengthened international environmental governance;

⁵Ibid., chap. III.

Underlines the need for sufficient financial resources on a stable and predictable basis to ensure the full implementation of the mandate of the Programme, and, within this context, notes ongoing related deliberations;

Notes the proposal of the Secretary-General to increase United Nations funding for the cost of servicing the Programme secretariat and the Governing Council from the regular budget;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under continuous review and to make proposals as needed in the context of the United Nations regular budget, with a view to strengthening the Programme and the Office.

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