Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on Its 26th Session

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19gReport of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 26th session, published in 2011.

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2008A/RES/62/195Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 24th session

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Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-sixth session and the decisions contained therein;

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;

Stresses the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the work of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme;

Reiterates the continuing need for the United Nations Environment Programme to conduct up-to-date, comprehensive, scientifically credible and policy-relevant global environment assessments, in close consultation with Member States, in order to support decision-making processes at all levels, and in this regard notes that the fifth report in the Global Environment Outlook series and its related summary for policymakers is currently under development, and stresses the need to enhance the policy relevance of the Outlook by, inter alia, identifying policy options to speed up the achievement of the internationally agreed goals and to inform global and regional processes and meetings where progress towards the agreed goals will be discussed, including the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development;

Welcomes the approval of the programme of work and the budget for the period 2012–2013;

Reiterates the need for stable, adequate and predictable financial resources for the United Nations Environment Programme, and, in accordance with resolution 2997 (XXVII), underlines the need to consider the adequate reflection of all the administrative and management costs of the Programme in the context of the United Nations regular budget;

Takes note of United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council decision 26/1 of 24 February 2011 on international environmental governance,8 and of the Nairobi-Helsinki Outcome;

Reiterates the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of the United Nations Environment Programme, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of the Programme and the United Nations Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to the Programme and to the other United Nations organs and organizations in Nairobi;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session”.

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