United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms (2025-2034)

A/RES/78/314View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 18i Combating sand and dust storms, published in 2023.

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2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 4	Environment and development and disaster risk reduction and management	28
	Subprogramme 1	Climate change and natural resource sustainability	15

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 4	Environment and development and disaster risk reduction and management	28	—
	Subprogramme 1	Climate change and natural resource sustainability	15	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

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2 subjects

Sand Dunes Storms

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8 operative paragraphs

Decides to proclaim 2025–2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms, within existing structures and available resources, with the aim of enhancing international and regional cooperation and supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and mitigate the negative effects of sand and dust storms, especially on the affected countries;

Stresses that combating sand and dust storms contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;²

²Resolution 70/1.

Recalls the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change³ and the Paris Agreement,⁴ the Convention on Biological Diversity⁵ and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, including the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme, as well as the outcomes of the high-level political forum on sustainable development;

³United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822

⁴Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619.

Emphasizes the need for further steps to accelerate and sustain action towards the mobilization of means of implementation and for the stepping up of international cooperation and collaboration in science, research and innovation for combating sand and dust storms at the local, national and regional levels, including through public-private and multi-stakeholder partnerships, and on the basis of common interest and mutual benefit;

Invites the Secretary-General, with the support of the United Nations Coalition on Combating Sand and Dust Storms, to take appropriate steps to plan and organize the activities of the Decade at the global, regional and country levels;

Invites all States Members of the United Nations, members of the specialized agencies and observers of the General Assembly, as well as organizations of the United Nations system, other international and regional organizations, civil society, the private sector and academia, and other relevant stakeholders, to contribute to the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms;

Stresses that the cost of all activities that may arise from the implementation of the present resolution should be met from voluntary contributions, including from the private sector;

Decides, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1989/84, to review the implementation of the Decade at its eighty-fourth session, and requests, in this regard, the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its eighty-fourth session on the status of the implementation of the Decade, including its contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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