A/RES/73/284
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 March 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 1 March 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.76 and A/73/L.76/Add.1)]
73/284.
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030)
The General Assembly,
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 2 2 June 2012,
entitled “The future we want”, 1 in which the role of ecosystem restoration in
achieving sustainable development was highlighted,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1980/67 of 25 July
1980 on international years and anniversaries and 1989/84 of 24 May 1989 on
guidelines for international decades in economic and social fields and General
Assembly resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006
on the proclamation of international years,
Recalling further the proclamation of the United Nations Decade for Deserts
and the Fight against Desertification (2010–2020), 2 the United Nations Decade
on Biodiversity, 2011–2020, 3 the International Decade for Action, “Water for
Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, 4 the United Nations Decade of Ocean
Science for Sustainable Development, 2021–2030, 5 and the United Nations Decade
of Family Farming (2019–2028), 6
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
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 62/195, para. 3.
Resolution 65/161, para. 19.
Resolution 71/222, para. 3.
Resolution 72/73, para. 292.
Resolution 72/239, para. 1.
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