A/RES/78/153
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 18 (d)
Sustainable development: protection of global climate for
present and future generations of humankind
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/78/461/Add.4, para. 11)]
78/153.
Protection of global climate for present and future generations
of humankind
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 43/53 of 6 December 1988, 54/222 of 22 December
1999, 62/86 of 10 December 2007, 63/32 of 26 November 2008, 64/73 of 7 December
2009, 65/159 of 20 December 2010, 66/200 of 22 December 2011, 67/210 of
21 December 2012, 68/212 of 20 December 2013, 69/220 of 19 December 2014,
70/205 of 22 December 2015, 71/228 of 21 December 2016, 72/219 of 20 December
2017, 73/232 of 20 December 2018, 74/219 of 19 December 2019, 75/217 of
21 December 2020, 76/205 of 17 December 2021 and 77/165 of 14 December 2022
and other resolutions and decisions relating to the protection of the global climate for
present and future generations of humankind,
Recalling also the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1
and the Paris Agreement, 2 acknowledging that they are the primary international,
intergovernmental forums for negotiating the global response to climate change,
expressing determination to address decisively the threat posed by climate change and
environmental degradation, recognizing that the global nature of climate change calls
for the widest possible international cooperation aimed at accelerating the reduction
of global greenhouse gas emissions and addressing adaptation to the adverse impacts
of climate change, and noting with concern the significant gap between the aggregate
effect of parties’ mitigation pledges, in particular their nationally determined
contributions, as appropriate, and aggregate emission pathways,
Recalling further the Paris Agreement, which, pursuant to article 2, paragraph 2,
thereof, will be implemented to reflect equity and the principle of common but
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