Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Mankind

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 85dProtection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind, published in 2005.

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17 versions · 1989–2008

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Biological Diversity Calendar of Meetings Climate Change Desertification Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Liaison Offices Russian Federation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies Sustainable Development

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Calls upon States to work cooperatively towards achieving the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;1

Notes that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change7 strongly urge States that have not yet done so to ratify it in a timely manner;

Notes also that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol welcome its ratification by the Russian Federation, which satisfies the requirements for the Kyoto Protocol to enter into force;

Encourages States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to continue their preparations for its entry into force;

Notes with interest the preparations undertaken for the implementation of the flexible mechanisms established by the Kyoto Protocol;

Takes note of the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its ninth session,5 and calls for their implementation;

Notes the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties;

Invites the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental conventions, when setting the dates of their meetings, to take into consideration the schedule of meetings of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development so as to ensure the adequate representation of developing countries at those meetings;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind”.

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