A/RES/74/227
Sustainable mountain development
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,
Reaffirming also the Paris Agreement 1 and its early entry into force,
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, whe re
appropriate, as soon as possible,
Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and
the Paris Agreement, and noting with concern the findings contained in the special
reports entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C and The Ocean and Cryosphere in a
Changing Climate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Noting with concern the adverse impacts of climate change on high mountains,
including the retreat of mountain glaciers, permafrost thaw, mass loss of ice sheets
and the decline in the depth, extent and duration of snow cover,
Welcoming the holding of the 2019 Climate Action Summit, convened by the
Secretary-General, on 23 September, taking note of the multi-partner initiatives and
commitments presented during the Summit, and taking note also of the Youth Climate
Summit, held on 21 September,
Recalling that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
inter alia, recognizes that developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems
are among the countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of
climate change,
Recalling also the Convention on Biological Diversity, 3 the Aichi Biodiversity
Targets contained in its Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 4 and its programme
of work on mountain biodiversity,
Noting with concern the findings of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, stressing the urgent need to address
the unprecedented global decline in biodiversity, and in this regard looking forward
to the 2020 summit on biodiversity and the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which is to adopt a post -2020
global biodiversity framework,
Recalling the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030 5 and the
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), 6 and noting with
appreciation the Bonn Challenge,
Recognizing the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction, 7 the latter of which, inter alia, identifies a need for focused
action in investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience, and in this regard considers
it important to promote, at the national and local levels, the mainstreaming of disaster
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See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.
United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex, decision X/2,
annex.
See resolution 71/285.
See resolution 73/284.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
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