A/RES/73/235
Harmony with Nature
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 implementa tion 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 soli darity,
Recalling the 1982 World Charter for Nature, 7
Noting the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth, hosted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Cochabamba from 20 to
22 April 2010, 8
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, 9
Recalling its resolutions 64/196 of 21 December 2009, 65/164 of 20 December
2010, 66/204 of 22 December 2011, 67/214 of 21 December 2012, 68/216 of
20 December 2013, 69/224 of 19 December 2014, 70/208 of 22 December 2015,
71/232 of 21 December 2016 and 72/223 of 20 December 2017 on Harmony with
Nature and its resolution 63/278 of 22 April 2009, by which it designated 22 April as
International Mother Earth Day,
Recalling also the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its eighteenth session 10 entitled
“Agreed outcome pursuant to the Bali Action Plan”, adopted in Doha on 8 December
2012, in which the Conference of the Parties, in section I, paragraph 2, among others,
took into account the imperatives of equitable access to sustainable development,
Recalling further the interactive dialogue on living in harmony with nature held
on the occasion of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Cancun, Mexico, from 4 to
17 December 2016,
Noting the first decade since the adoption of the Constitution of Ecuador in
Montecristi in 2008, which was the first to have included the rights of nature at the
constitutional level, as part of the broader effort to protect and r espect nature,
Noting with appreciation the interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature
convened by the President of the General Assembly with the overall theme of Earth
jurisprudence in the implementation of sustainable consumption and production
patterns in harmony with nature, held on 23 April 2018, in commemoration of
International Mother Earth Day and to inspire citizens and societies to reconsider how
they interact with the natural world in order to implement the Sustainable
Development Goals in harmony with nature, and noting that some co untries recognize
the rights of nature in the context of the promotion of sustainable development,
Recognizing that planet Earth and its ecosystems are our home and that “Mother
Earth” is a common expression in a number of countries and regions, noting th at some
countries recognize the rights of nature in the context of the promotion of sustainable
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Resolution 37/7, annex.
See A/64/777, annexes I and II.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1, decision 1/CP.18.
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