Protection of global climate for present
and future generations of humankind
A/RES/74/219
Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 15 the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 16 and the New Urban Agenda, adopted at
the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
(Habitat III), held in Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016,17
Noting the contribution of various initiatives, including the Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction, as well as regional and subregional platforms for disaster
risk reduction, to promoting coherence between disaster risk reduction, sustainable
development and efforts to mitigate climate change and the findings of the 2019
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, and recognizing that disaster
risk reduction efforts consistent with the Sendai Framework contribute to
strengthening resilience and climate change adaptation, and in this regard highlighting
synergies which help to ensure progress towards sustainable development,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three d imensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Noting with concern the findings contained in the special report 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, Global Warming of 1.5°C, in the context of strengthening the
global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts
to eradicate poverty,
Noting also with concern the findings contained in the special report of the
Intergovernmental Panel entitled Climate Change, Desertification, Land
Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas
Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems, and noting further with concern the findings
contained in the special report of the Intergovernmental Panel entitled The Ocean and
Cryosphere in a Changing Climate,
Reiterating its support for the objectives and guiding principles of the Green
Climate Fund, including a gender-sensitive approach in its process and operations,
and stressing its goal of ensuring efficient access to its resources through simplified
approval procedures and enhancing readiness support, which will help to deliver
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Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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