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Entrepreneurship for sustainable development
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Welcoming 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, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, 3 and reaffirming that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, among
other things, seeks to develop and implement holistic disaster risk reduction
management at all levels in line with the Sendai Framework,
Recalling also relevant strategies and programmes of action, including the
Istanbul Declaration and Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for
the Decade 2011–2020, 4 the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA)
Pathway, 5 the Vienna Declaration and Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked
Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, 6 taking note of Agenda 2063 of the
African Union, and recognizing the importance of addressing the diverse needs and
challenges faced by countries in special situations, in particular African countries, the
least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island
developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing middle -income countries,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 7 the Programme
of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 8 and the
outcome documents of their review conferences,
Acknowledging that entrepreneurship and innovation are essential for
harnessing the economic potential of each nation and the importance of supporting
mass entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, which create new mome ntum for
economic growth and job creation and expand opportunities for all, including women
and youth,
Recalling relevant agreed conclusions and resolutions adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women, including the agreed conclusion s adopted at its
sixty-first session, entitled “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world
of work”, 9 and the agreed conclusions adopted at its sixty-second session, entitled
“Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of
rural women and girls”, 10 stressing that women and girls, particularly in developing
countries, are important drivers of entrepreneurship and sustainable development,
calling for measures to enable women to leverage science and technology for
entrepreneurship and economic empowerment, and recognizing the importance of
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul,
Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chaps. I and II.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
Resolution 69/137, 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.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 7 (E/2017/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., 2018, Supplement No. 7 (E/2018/27), chap. I, sect. A.
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