A/RES/76/205
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 20 (d)
Sustainable development: protection of global climate for
present and future generations of humankind
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2021
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/76/533/Add.4, para. 11)]
76/205.
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, 70/205
of 22 December 2015, 71/228 of 21 December 2016, 72/219 of 20 December 2017,
73/232 of 20 December 2018, 74/219 of 19 December 2019 and 75/217 of 21
December 2020 and other resolutions and decisions relating to the protection of the
global climate for present and future generations of humankind,
Recalling also 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 negotiating 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
particular their nationally determined contributions, as appropriate, 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 but
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