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Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

A/RES/66/200View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19dProtection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 2010–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/138
  • 2025A/RES/80/138Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankindLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/206Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankindCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/153Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankindCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/165Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankindCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/76/205Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankindCompare with previous version

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
Climate ChangeConferencesEnvironmental ProtectionSubsidiary Bodies

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs
1
Recalls the outcome of the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and of the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, hosted in Cancun, Mexico, by the Government of Mexico from 29 November to 10 December 2010;
2
Recognizes the need to build on the existing political momentum with a view to further advancing climate change negotiations;
3
Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the United Nations Climate Change Conference and its follow-up;
4
Underlines the importance of achieving an ambitious, substantive, holistic and balanced outcome through the ongoing negotiations at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol;
5
Notes with appreciation that the Government of South Africa hosted the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Durban from 28 November to 9 December 2011;
6
Notes the ongoing preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012;
7
Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session on the work of the Conference of the Parties;
8
Requests the Secretary-General to make provisions for the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and its subsidiary bodies in his proposal for the programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013;
9
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind”.

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