Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

A/RES/69/220View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19d Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind, published in 2015.

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 Climate Change Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

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 an increase in such 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;

Notes the determination of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, expressed in its decision 2/CP.18,¹⁴ to adopt a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties at its twenty-first session, to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and for it to come into effect and be implemented from 2020;

¹⁴See FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1.

Takes note of the outcome of the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and of the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, hosted by the Government of Poland in Warsaw from 11 to 23 November 2013,¹⁵ and in particular its invitation, in its decision 1/CP.19,¹⁶ to all parties to initiate or intensify domestic preparations for their intended nationally determined contributions, without prejudice to the legal nature of the contributions, in the context of adopting a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties towards achieving the objective of the Convention, as set out in its article 2, and to communicate them well in advance of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (by the first quarter of 2015 by those parties ready to do so) in a manner that facilitates the clarity, transparency and understanding of the intended contributions, without prejudice to the legal nature of the contributions;

¹⁵FCCC/CP/2013/10/Add.1, Add.2/Rev.1 and Add.3 and FCCC/KP/CMP/2013/9/Add.1.

¹⁶See FCCC/CP/2013/10/Add.1.

Notes the reiteration by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action shall be guided by the principles of the Convention;

Also notes the request of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention that the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action further elaborate elements for a draft negotiating text, taking into consideration its work, including its work on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, capacity-building and transparency of action and support;

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 held in Warsaw from 11 to 23 November 2013;¹⁷

¹⁷A/69/317, sect. I.

Also takes note of decision 2/CP.19, taken by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its nineteenth session,Error: Reference source not found and resolves to work together to implement and operationalize the Warsaw international mechanism for loss and damage associated with climate change impacts;

Notes the conclusion of the Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, and welcomes its contribution to the existing political momentum, with a view to galvanizing action to address climate change;

Notes with appreciation the hosting by the Government of Peru of the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, in Lima from 1 to 12 December 2014;

Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its seventieth 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 proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth 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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