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Combating sand and dust storms
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 that have not yet done so to
deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where
appropriate, as soon as possible,
Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Paris Agreement,
and noting with concern the findings contained in the special report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C,
Recalling United Nations Environment Assembly resolutions 1/7 of 27 June
2014 on strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme in
promoting air quality, 3 2/21 of 27 May 2016 on sand and dust storms 4 and 4/10 of
15 March 2019 on innovation on biodiversity and land degradation, 5
Acknowledging the work done by the secretariat of the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, towards mitigating sa nd and
dust storm issues at source, and acknowledging also the continuing support of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for countries affected by
sand and dust storms through the promotion of sustainable land use management,
agroforestry, shelter belts, afforestation/reforestation and land restoration programmes,
which all contribute to sand and dust storm source mitigation,
Recalling the outcomes of the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, held in New Delhi,
India, from 2 to 13 September 2019, including decision 25/COP.14 of 12 September
2019 entitled “Follow-up on policy frameworks and thematic issues: sand and dust
storms”, 6
Noting the adoption, by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific at its seventy-second session, of resolution 72/7 of 19 May 2016 on regional
cooperation to combat sand and dust storms in Asia and the Pacific,
Noting also the endorsement by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific at its seventy-fifth session of the recommendation by the Governing
Council of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information
Management to establish a subregional cooperation mechanism for slow-onset
hazards with a focus on sand and dust storms in South-West and Central Asia,
Recalling its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, in which it endorsed the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
entitled “The future we want”,
Recalling also its resolutions 71/229 of 21 December 2016, 72/220 of
20 December 2017 and 73/233 of 20 December 2018 on the implementation of the
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries
Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 7
Taking note of the Regional Programme to Combat Sand and Dust Storms of the
United Nations Environment Programme, and taking note also of other initiatives,
including the ministerial meeting on sand and dust storms held in Nairobi on 21 February
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/69/25),
annex.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25), annex.
UNEP/EA.4/Res.10.
See ICCD/COP(14)/23/Add.1.
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