Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

A/RES/67/210View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 2010–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/138

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/138	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,545	76%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/206	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,698	78%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/153	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	6,333	79%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/165	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	5,458	42%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/205	Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind	4,474	82%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2017

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2017	A/72/82	Action Plan for Integrating Sustainable Development Practices into Secretariat-wide Operations and Facilities Management report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/71/228

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Climate Change Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Greenhouse Gas Emissions

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the outcome of the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and of the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, hosted by the Government of South Africa in Durban, from 28 November to 11 December 2011;¹⁶

¹⁶FCCC/CP/2011/9/Add.1 and 2 and FCCC/KP/CMP/2011/10/Add.1 and 2.

Reaffirms that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, expresses profound alarm that the emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise globally, remains deeply concerned that all countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change and are already experiencing increased impacts, including persistent drought and extreme weather events, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification, further threatening food security and efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development, and in this regard emphasizes that adaptation to climate change represents an immediate and urgent global priority;

Recognizes the need to build on the existing political momentum with a view to achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention and to further advancing climate change negotiations;

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 in Durban;¹⁷

¹⁷A/67/295, sect. I.

Notes with appreciation that the Government of Qatar hosted the eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012;

Registers its encouragement to Member States to approach the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha with a view to achieving an ambitious, substantive and balanced outcome, building on the progress made through the Bali Action Plan¹⁸ and the decisions adopted at Cancun, Mexico,¹⁹ and Durban, South Africa,15 accelerating progress towards the full implementation of those decisions through the ongoing negotiations at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, consistent with the mandates of and decisions on the three tracks of negotiations, and further developing and implementing the new processes and institutions agreed in the Cancun and Durban decisions;

¹⁸FCCC/CP/2007/6/Add.1, decision 1/CP.13.

¹⁹At the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the sixth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010 (see FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 and 2).

Notes the significant political momentum towards adopting the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol14 as a key deliverable at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha;

Takes note of the decision, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its seventeenth session, to launch a process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties, through a subsidiary body under the Convention known as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action;²⁰

²⁰FCCC/CP/2011/9/Add.1, decision 1/CP.17.

Also takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the Ad Hoc Working Group shall complete its work as early as possible, but no later than 2015, in order to adopt the protocol, legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties and for it to come into effect in and be implemented as from 2020;Error: Reference source not found

Further takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the Ad Hoc Working Group shall plan its work in the first half of 2012, including on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, transparency of action and support and capacity-building, drawing upon submissions from parties and relevant technical, social and economic information and expertise;Error: Reference source not found

Takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to launch a workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap, with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all parties;Error: Reference source not found

Recognizes the need to engage a broad range of stakeholders at the global, regional, national and local levels, including national, subnational and local governments, private businesses and civil society, and including youth and persons with disabilities, and that gender equality and the effective participation of women and indigenous peoples are important for effective action on all aspects of climate change;

Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties;

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 2014–2015;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth 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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