Combating Sand and Dust Storms

A/RES/71/219View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19 Sustainable development, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2016–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/143

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/143	Combating sand and dust storms	4,310	79%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/212	Combating sand and dust storms	3,980	83%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/158	Combating sand and dust storms	4,000	80%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/171	Combating sand and dust storms	3,777	83%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/211	Combating sand and dust storms	3,275	79%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2018–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/265	Combating sand and dust storms report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/212
2024	A/79/254	Combating sand and dust storms report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/158
2023	A/78/237	Combating sand and dust storms report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/171
2022	A/77/216	Combating sand and dust storms report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/211
2021	A/76/219	Combating sand and dust storms report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/222

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Disaster Prevention Sand Dunes Storms Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Recognizes that sand and dust storms and the unsustainable land-management practices, among other factors, that can cause or exacerbate these phenomena, including climate change, pose a serious challenge to the sustainable development of affected countries and regions, also recognizes that, in the past few years, sand and dust storms have inflicted substantial economic, social and environmental damage on the inhabitants of the world’s arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid areas, especially in Africa and Asia, underscores the need to treat them and to promptly take measures to address those challenges, and decides to convene a high-level interactive dialogue of the General Assembly, during its seventy-second session, to discuss action-oriented recommendations to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of the affected countries, including ways to improve policy coordination at the global level to address those challenges in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals;⁵

⁵See resolution 70/1.

Acknowledges the role of the United Nations development system in advancing international cooperation and support to combat sand and dust storms, and invites all relevant bodies, agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and all other related organizations to integrate, in their respective cooperation frameworks, operational programmes, measures and actions aimed at combating sand and dust storms so as to address this problem and contribute to the enhancement of, inter alia, capacity-building at the national level, the implementation of regional and subregional projects, the sharing of information, best practices and experiences and the boosting of technical cooperation in the affected countries and countries of origin, to improve the implementation of sustainable land management practices and to take measures to prevent and control the main factors of sand and dust storms and the development of early warning systems as tools to combat sand and dust storms in accordance with their strategic plans;

Encourages regional, subregional and interregional organizations and processes to continue to share best practices, experiences and technical expertise in combating sand and dust storms, including through improved implementation of sustainable land-management practices, and to promote regional cooperation in this matter;

Invites all affected Member States as well as relevant entities of the United Nations development system, regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders to endeavour to meet the objectives set out in the present resolution;

Reaffirms that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time and, among other factors, is a serious challenge to the sustainable development of all countries, including those affected by sand and dust storms;

Commends the commitment of the United Nations Environment Assembly to address sand and dust storms, and in this regard notes Environment Assembly resolution 2/21 of 27 May 2016 on sand and dust storms, adopted during its second session;⁶

⁶See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25), annex.

Acknowledges the intention of the Islamic Republic of Iran to host an international event on combating sand and dust storms, with the cooperation of the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, as well as other relevant United Nations entities, in 2017;

Also acknowledges the global assessment of sand and dust storms, prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme in collaboration with other relevant United Nations entities, including the World Meteorological Organization and the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and transmitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly in accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/195,⁷ which sets out proposals for consolidated and coordinated technical and policy options for responding to sand and dust storms;

⁷See A/71/376.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Combating sand and dust storms”, unless otherwise agreed.

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