United Nations
A/RES/71/228
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 19 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463/Add.4)]
71/228. 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 and 70/205 of 22 December 2015, and other resolutions and decisions relating
to the protection of the global climate for present and future generations of
humankind,
Recalling also in full the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change 1 and the Paris Agreement adopted under the Convention, 2 acknowledging
that they are the primary international, intergovernmental forums for negot iating 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 terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 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 bu t
differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different
national circumstances,
Noting with appreciation the high-level signature ceremony for the Paris
Agreement, held on 22 April 2016, and the high-level event for the entry into force
of the Agreement, held on 21 September 2016,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
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