A/RES/74/221
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 19 (f)
Sustainable development: Convention on
Biological Diversity
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/381/Add.6)]
74/221.
Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
and its contribution to sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 64/203 of 21 December 2009, 65/161 of 20 December
2010, 66/202 of 22 December 2011, 67/212 of 21 December 2012, 68/214 of
20 December 2013, 69/222 of 19 December 2014, 70/207 of 22 December 2015,
71/230 of 21 December 2016, 72/221 of 20 December 2017 and 73/234 of
20 December 2018 and its previous resolutions relating to the Convention on
Biological Diversity, 1
Reaffirming the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 2
and its principles, the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 3 and, inter alia, the
commitments concerning biodiversity contained therein, the Programme for the
Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 4 the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable
Development 5 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation) 6 and the outcome document of
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3−14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication,
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
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.
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
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