A/RES/68/212
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 19 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/438/Add.4)]
68/212. 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 and
67/210 of 21 December 2012 and other resolutions and decisions relating to the
protection of the global climate for present and future generations of humankind,
Recalling also the objectives, principles and provisions of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1
Concerned that human activities have been substantially increasing the
atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, that these increases enhance the
natural greenhouse effect and that this will result on average in an additional
warming of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere and may adversely affect the natural
ecosystem and humankind,
Acknowledging that the developed country parties must take the lead in
combating climate change and its adverse effects,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development 3 and the Plan of Implementation of the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), 4
the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 5 the outcomes of the thirteenth to eighteenth
sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 55/2.
3
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,
resolution 1, annex.
4
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
5
Resolution 60/1.
2
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