Promotion of durable peace through sustainable development in Africa A/RES/80/267 development assistance in Africa to ensure the consistent prioritization of strengthening national public institutions and systems across all programming areas, stressing that it should also strengthen coordination mechanisms that elevate African ownership, including through joint sector reviews, national development compacts and South-South cooperation platforms and initiatives, while ensuring that externally funded programmes include clear transition plans for full national leadership and reinforce locally driven and inclusive approaches that uphold dignity and rights; 19. Underlines the importance of strengthened support from development partners and the multilateral system to build and strengthen resilience, State institutions and effective governance systems, particularly in conflict -affected and post-conflict countries, including through scaling up financial assistance, technical expertise and capacity-building, in accordance with national plans, needs and priorities and respecting national ownership; 20. Urges Member States to commit to enhancing public health cooperation with Africa, supporting Africa in strengthening and improving health systems, namely, through capacity-building; 21. Recognizes the adverse effects of climate change, ecological changes and natural disasters on the achievement of sustainable development in African Member States, including drought, desertification, biodiversity loss, land degradation, deforestation, flooding and food insecurity, emphasizes the importance of sustainable use of natural resources and the need for adequate risk assessment and risk management strategies, highlights the importance of supporting efforts to strengthen the implementation of initiatives aimed at enhancing resilience in Africa, in particular the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and other initiatives launched under the leadership of the African Union Commission such as the Great Green Wall and the Land Policy Initiative and the African Union Green Recovery Action Plan, as well as initiatives launched by African countries such as the Adaptation of African Agriculture and the Security, Stability and Sustainability initiatives, and welcomes the efforts and initiatives of the African Union on addressing climate change on the continent; and in this regard welcomes the outcomes of the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022, noting the launch of the Climate Responses for Sustaining Peace (CRSP) initiative by Egypt as President of the twenty -seventh session of the Conference of the Parties and the African Union, as well as the twenty -eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December 2023, the twenty-ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2024, and the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025; 22. Welcomes the convening of the second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa from 8 to 10 September 2025, and takes note of the Addis Ababa Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action, including the African Climate Innovation Compact and the African Climate Facility, and reaffirms the importance of the provision of the means of implementation to developing countries; 23. Also welcomes the convening of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the Meetings of the Parties to the Protocols to the Convention, held in Cali, Colombia, from 21 October to 1 November 2024, under the theme “Peace with nature”, takes note of its adopted decisions, looks forward to the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of 26-07988 7/13