Harmony with Nature

A/RES/66/204View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19h Harmony with nature, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2010–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/210

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/210	Harmony with nature	3,279	81%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/169	Harmony with nature	2,840	80%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/220	Harmony with nature	2,436	90%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/224	Harmony with nature	2,277	58%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/223	Harmony with nature	1,964	78%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2010–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/276	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/210
2024	A/79/253	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/169
2022	A/77/244	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/220
2020	A/75/266	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/224
2019	A/74/236	Harmony with nature report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/235

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Earth Environmental Protection Experts Information Exchange Sustainable Development Trust Funds Websites

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the second report of the Secretary-General on Harmony with Nature;⁹

⁹A/66/302.

Requests the President of the General Assembly to convene, at the sixty-sixth session of the Assembly, an interactive dialogue, to be held at the plenary meetings to be convened during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day on 23 April 2012, with the participation of Member States, United Nations organizations, independent experts and other stakeholders, to discuss the scientific findings on how human activities are affecting the Earth’s ecosystem;

Requests the Secretary-General to establish a trust fund for the participation of independent experts in the interactive dialogue to be held at the plenary meetings to be convened during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day on 23 April 2012, and invites Member States and other relevant stakeholders to consider contributing to this fund;

Also requests the Secretary-General to continue making use of the existing information portal on sustainable development maintained by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and the Division for Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to gather information and contributions on ideas and activities to promote a holistic approach to sustainable development in harmony with nature being undertaken to advance the integration of scientific interdisciplinary work, including success stories on the use of traditional knowledge, and existing national legislation, taking into account that such a portal will be launched by 2012;

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;

Encourages all countries and the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to develop and strengthen the quality and quantity of basic statistical data on the three pillars of sustainable development, and invites the international community and the pertinent bodies of the United Nations system to assist the efforts of developing countries by providing capacity-building and technical support;

Invites the relevant entities of the United Nations system to work with other relevant actors, including non-governmental organizations, experts and the academic community, as appropriate, both to identify new ways and means to overcome the limitations of gross domestic product with regard to sustainable development and to better measure the environmental degradation resulting from human activity;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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