Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on Its 1st Universal 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 19g Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 1st universal session, published in 2013.

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1 entity

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

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1 entity

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

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4 subjects

Country Teams Environmental Policy Programme Implementation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

22 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the convening of the first universal session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi from 18 to 22 February 2013;

Takes note of the report of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum¹¹ and the decisions contained therein;

¹¹Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/68/25).

Looks forward to the first session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme, to be held in June 2014;

Takes note of decision 27/2 of 22 February 2013, adopted by the Governing Council at its first universal session, on the implementation of paragraph 88 of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,¹² as endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012;

¹²Ibid., annex.

Welcomes the request of the Governing Council to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to continue the current emphasis on the achievement of results for the achievement of programme objectives;

Takes note of decision 27/13 of 22 February 2013, adopted by the Governing Council at its first universal session, on the proposed medium-term strategy for the period 2014–2017 and biennial programme of work and budget for 2014–2015;11

Also takes note of the ongoing discussions at the United Nations Environment Assembly on its rules of procedure;

Welcomes the continued support of the United Nations Environment Programme to the United Nations system in the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social, environmental and related fields;

Also welcomes the establishment of the 10-member board of the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns, and recalls the decision that the United Nations Environment Programme would serve as the secretariat of the 10-year framework;

Reiterates the continuing need for the United Nations Environment Programme to conduct up-to-date, comprehensive, scientifically based and policy-relevant global environmental assessments, in close consultation with Member States, in order to support decision-making processes at all levels;

Takes note of decision 27/11 of 22 February 2013, adopted by the Governing Council at its first universal session, on the state of the environment and contribution of the United Nations Environment Programme to meeting substantive environmental challenges,11 and in this regard welcomes:

The Governing Council’s request to the Executive Director to strengthen the policy relevance of the Global Environment Outlook reports, and the Governing Council’s request to the Executive Director related to the objectives, scope and process for the next Global Environment Outlook assessment;

Inputs by the Programme, as the leading global environmental authority, on the environmental dimension of sustainable development, including in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda, as well as in discussions on the scope and modalities of a global sustainable development report;

The proposal in the programme of work for 2014–2015 for a gender and environment outlook that would use social science information and gender-sensitive indicators to review gender-environment links and guide policy actions towards gender equality;

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;

Notes the commitment of the governing body of the United Nations Environment Programme to progressively consolidate headquarters functions of the Programme in Nairobi and, in this context, of the request of the governing body of the Programme to the Executive Director to present a report to the governing body at its next session and to include recommendations in the programme of work for the period 2016–2017 to be acted upon and implemented in a timely manner, and also takes note of the decision of the governing body of the Programme to strengthen the Programme’s regional presence in order to assist countries in the implementation of their national environmental programmes, policies and plans and, in this regard, of the requests of the governing body of the Programme to the Executive Director to increase the Programme’s participation in United Nations country teams;

Also notes the continued support of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme for the full and effective participation of representatives of developing countries in the United Nations Environment Assembly of the Programme, and welcomes the commitment of the United Nations Environment Assembly in this regard;

Reiterates that capacity-building and technology support to developing countries in environment-related fields are important components of the work of the United Nations Environment Programme, and in this regard calls for the continued and focused implementation of the Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity-building,8 adopted by the Programme;

Recalls the decision contained in paragraph 88 (b) of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/288, that the United Nations Environment Programme 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 Programme;

Notes the inclusion by the Secretary-General in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014–2015 of regular budget resources for the revised programme of work of the United Nations Environment Programme, and requests the Secretary-General to maintain the resource needs of the Programme under review;

Urges donors, and other stakeholders in a position to do so, to increase voluntary funding to the United Nations Environment Programme, including to the Environment Fund;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Report of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme”.

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