Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on Its 12th Special Session and the Implementation of Section iv.c, Entitled "Environmental Pillar in the Context of Sustainable Development", Of the Outcome Document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20g Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 12th special session, published in 2012.

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 11	Environment	151

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 11	Environment	151	—

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Environment Environmental Policy Financial Resources Institutional Machinery

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Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session and the decisions contained therein;¹⁰

¹⁰Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/67/25).

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, in this regard takes note of the fifth report in the Global Environment Outlook series and its related summary for policymakers, 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 at which progress towards the agreed goals will be discussed;

Also 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 organizations and entities in Nairobi;

Decides:

To strengthen and upgrade the United Nations Environment Programme in the manner set out in subparagraphs (a) to (h) of paragraph 88 of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, as endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012;

To establish universal membership in the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, and mandates it, as from its first universal session to be held in Nairobi in February 2013, using its applicable rules of procedure and applicable rules and practices of the General Assembly, pending the adoption of its new rules of procedure, to expeditiously initiate the implementation of the provisions contained in paragraph 88 of the outcome document in their entirety, make a recommendation on its designation to reflect its universal character and decide on future arrangements for the Global Ministerial Environment Forum;

To request the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to continue to provide support for the full and effective participation of representatives of developing countries in the Governing Council meeting and invite the Governing Council to consider further arrangements in this regard;

Recalls the decision to have secure, stable, adequate and increased financial resources from the regular budget of the United Nations and voluntary contributions to fulfil the mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme, and:

Requests the Secretary-General, in line with paragraph 88 (b) of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to reflect in the budget proposal for the biennium 2014–2015 resources that take into account the proposed revised programme of work of the United Nations Environment Programme and the implementation of paragraph 88, subparagraphs (a) to (h), of the outcome document, as well as opportunities for increasing the efficient use of resources;

Urges donors to increase voluntary funding to the United Nations Environment Programme, including to the Environment Fund;

Requests the Secretary-General to maintain the resource needs from the regular budget of the United Nations for the United Nations Environment Programme under review, in the light of the implementation of paragraph 88 of the outcome document, in accordance with United Nations budgetary practices;

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

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