A/RES/74/223
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 19 (h)
Sustainable development: education for sustainable
development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/381/Add.8)]
74/223.
Education for sustainable development in the framework
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 72/222 of 20 December 2017 and other previous
resolutions on education for sustainable development,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainabl e development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system and its general guidelines and principles, as well as its resolution
72/279 of 31 May 2018 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2019/15 of
8 July 2019, and welcoming the efforts of the Secretary-General to better position the
United Nations operational activities for development to support countries in their
efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Reaffirming further the commitment made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all,
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