Report of the United Nations Environment Assembly
of the United Nations Environment Programme
A/RES/73/260
Looking forward to the Secretary-General’s climate summit in 2019, to
accelerate global action on climate change,
Taking note of the contribution of the United Nations Environment Assembly to
addressing the challenge of, inter alia, climate change, within its mandate and in
collaboration with other relevant organizations and stakeholders,
Committed to strengthening international environmental governance within the
context of the institutional framework for sustainable development in order to
promote a balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions
of sustainable development as well as coordination within the United Nations system,
Committed also to enhancing the voice of the United Nations Environment
Programme and its ability to fulfil its coordination mandate within the United Nations
system by strengthening its engagement in key United Nations coo rdination bodies
and empowering it to lead efforts to formulate United Nations system -wide strategies
on the environment,
Recognizing the important contribution of the United Nations Environment
Assembly to the 2018 high-level political forum on sustainable development, which
met under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council from 9 to 1 8 July in
New York and undertook an in-depth review of progress on a subset of 6 of the 17
Sustainable Development Goals,
Reiterating the need for secure, stable, adequate and predictable financial
resources for the United Nations Environment Programme, and, in accordance with
resolution 2997 (XXVII), underlining the need to consider the adequate reflection of
all the administrative and management costs of the Programme in the context of the
United Nations regular budget, as well as the need to realize efficiency gains,
Reaffirming the commitments, as contained in the ministerial outcome
document of the first session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of t he
United Nations Environment Programme, held in Nairobi from 23 to 2 7 June 2014, 13
inter alia, to ensure the full integration of the environmental dimension, especially
throughout the sustainable development agenda, acknowledging that a healthy
environment is an essential requirement and key enabler for sustainable development,
Reiterating the need to develop and expand partnerships, including between
Governments, the private sector, academia, relevant United Nations entities and
programmes, indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society and individuals,
1.
Welcomes the holding of the third session of the United Nations
Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi from
4 to 6 December 2017, also welcomes the report on the session and the resolutions
and decisions contained therein, 14 and looks forward to the convening of the fourth
session of the United Nations Environment Assembly from 11 to 1 5 March 2019;
2.
Reiterates the ministerial declaration entitled “Towards a pollution-free
planet” 15 adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations
Environment Programme at its third session, and reaffirms that addressing pollution
is a crucial element for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable De velopment 16
and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals;
3.
Welcomes the continued commitment of the United Nations Environment
Assembly to contributing to the effective implementation of the environmental
dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in an integrated manner,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/69/25),
annex, resolution 1/1.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/73/25).
UNEP/EA.3/HLS.1.
Resolution 70/1.
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