Towards the sustainable development of the Caribbean
Sea for present and future generations
A/RES/73/229
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development 9 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10 as well as other
relevant declarations and international instruments,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement, 11 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 12 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as
possible,
Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, 13
Recalling also the Declaration and review document adopted by the General
Assembly at its twenty-second special session, 14
Recalling further its resolution 71/312 of 6 July 2017, in which it endorsed the
declaration entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for action”, adopted by the high-level
United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable
Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development, held from 5 to 9 June 2017, coinciding with
World Oceans Day on 8 June, reaffirming in this regard the important role of the
declaration in demonstrating the collective will to take action to conserve and
sustainably use our oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development,
and recognizing the important contributions of the partnership dialogues and
voluntary commitments made in the context of that Conference to the effective and
timely implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Taking into account all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 54/225 of
22 December 1999, 55/203 of 20 December 2000, 57/261 of 20 December 2002,
59/230 of 22 December 2004, 61/197 of 20 December 2006, 63/214 of 19 December
2008, 65/155 of 20 December 2010, 67/205 of 21 December 2012, 69/216 of
19 December 2014 and 71/224 of 21 December 2016,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 15
Recalling also the Convention for the Protection and Development of the
Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, signed at Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia, on 24 March 1983, 16 and the protocols thereto, which contain the
definition of the wider Caribbean region of which the Caribbean Sea is part,
Reaffirming the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 17 which
provides the legal framework for ocean activities, and emphasizing its fundamental
character, conscious that the problems of ocean space are closely interrelated and need
to be considered as a whole through an integrated, interdisciplinary and intersectoral
approach,
Recalling the Convention on Biological Diversity 18 and other biodiversityrelated conventions, including the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
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Resolution 69/313, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-22/2, annex.
Resolution 60/1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1506, No. 25974.
Ibid., vol. 1833, No. 31363.
Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.
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