Protection of Global Climate for Present and Future Generations of Humankind

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 19dProtection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind, published in 2018.

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Climate Change Conferences Environmental Agreements Environmental Protection Sustainable Development

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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, land degradation, sea level rise, coastal erosion, ocean acidification and the retreat of mountain glaciers, further threatening food security and efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development, recognizes the substantial risks posed by climate change to health, and emphasizes in this regard that mitigation of and adaptation to climate change represent an immediate and urgent global priority;

Welcomes the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by the Government of Morocco in Marrakech from 7 to 18 November 2016;

Also welcomes the early entry into force, on 4 November 2016, of the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,2 and encourages all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible;

Recalls that the Paris Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production, and making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development;

Welcomes the nationally determined contributions submitted to date, and recalls that the regular updating of such contributions should reflect the highest possible level of ambition, in the light of different national circumstances, and should provide the information necessary for clarity, transparency and understanding, in accordance with the relevant decisions;

Also welcomes the call of the Secretary-General for a climate summit to be held in New York in 2019;

Emphasizes the need for collective efforts to promote sustainable development in its three dimensions in an innovative, coordinated, environmentally sound, open and shared manner;

Reiterates the call made in the declaration “Our ocean, our future: call for action” for action to be taken on an urgent basis to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development;

Acknowledges the work undertaken under the auspices of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, and encourages non-party stakeholders to scale up their efforts to address and respond to climate change;

Invites the President of the General Assembly to convene a high-level meeting during the seventy-third session of the General Assembly on the issue of the protection of the global climate for present and future generations of humankind in the context of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Reiterates the resolve of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, as set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of its decision 1/CP.19, to accelerate the full implementation of the decisions constituting the agreed outcome pursuant to its decision 1/CP.13 and to enhance ambition in the pre-2020 period in order to ensure the highest possible mitigation efforts under the Convention by all parties;

Welcomes the acceptance or ratification of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol by 95 countries, and encourages further acceptance or ratifications as soon as possible;

Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;

Recognizes the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, and in that regard takes note of decisions 2/CP.19,28 2/CP.20 and 3/CP.22 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts, and decision 1/CP.21, in which the Paris Agreement was adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-first session;

Notes with appreciation the convening by the Government of Fiji of, and the provision of technical assistance by the Government of Germany to, the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the second part of the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, in Bonn, Germany, from 6 to 17 November 2017;

Welcomes the offer by the Government of Poland to host the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention in Katowice, from 3 to 14 December 2018;

Looks forward to the further implementation of the programme of work under the Paris Agreement, in accordance with relevant decisions by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, as well as to the Talanoa (facilitative) dialogue in 2018;

Urges Member States, taking into account that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by climate change owing to gender inequalities and the dependence of many women on natural resources for their livelihoods, to promote the integration of a gender perspective into environmental and climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate resources towards achieving the full and equal participation of women in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, and stresses the need to address the challenges posed by climate change that affect women and girls in particular;

Endorses the action plan for integrating sustainable development practices into Secretariat-wide operations and facilities management submitted by the Secretary-General, and requests the Secretary-General to implement his relevant recommendations within existing resources;

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 2018–2019;

Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, and decides to include, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind” in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, unless otherwise agreed.

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