Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027)
A/RES/74/234
Reaffirming further the Paris Agreement, 1 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 2 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where ap propriate, as soon as
possible,
Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Paris Agreement,
and noting with concern the findings contained in the special rep ort of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming of
1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas
emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat
of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty,
Reaffirming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador,
from 17 to 20 October 2016, 3
Noting with concern the insufficient progress made in reducing the non-income
dimensions of poverty, and noting with concern also that, after steadily declining for
more than a decade, global hunger is once again on the rise, affecting 821.6 mi llion
people in 2018, up from 785.4 million in 2015, and that conflict, drought and
flooding, among other factors, have exacerbated the food insecurity situation in some
parts of the world,
Recalling the Monterrey Consensus of the International
Financing for Development 4 and the Doha Declaration on
Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International
Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of
Consensus, 5
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the Monterrey
Welcoming the 2019 Climate Action Summit convened by the SecretaryGeneral, as well as the high-level political forum on sustainable development, the
high-level meeting on universal health coverage, the High-level Dialogue on
Financing for Development and the high-level meeting to review progress made in
addressing the priorities of small island developing States through the implementation
of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 6 convened under
the auspices of the General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system and its general guidelines and principles, a s well as its resolution
72/279 of 31 May 2018 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2019/15 of
8 July 2019, and welcoming the efforts of the Secretary-General to better position the
United Nations operational activities for development to support countries in their
efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the context
of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for
development of the United Nations system,
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1,
annex.
Resolution 63/239, annex.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
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