A/RES/76/185
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 108
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/463, para. 26)]
76/185.
Preventing and combating crimes that affect the environment
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 67/189 of 20 December 2012, 68/193 of 18 December
2013, 69/197 of 18 December 2014, 70/178 of 17 December 2015, 71/209 of
19 December 2016, 72/196 of 19 December 2017, 73/186 of 17 December 2018,
74/177 of 18 December 2019 and 75/196 of 16 December 2020, entitled
“Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme,
in particular its technical cooperation capacity”, in which the Assembly expressed
deep concern about crimes that affect the environment and emphasized the need to
combat such crimes by strengthening international cooper ation, capacity-building,
criminal justice responses and law enforcement efforts, as well as its resolutions
69/314 of 30 July 2015, 70/301 of 9 September 2016, 71/326 of 11 September 2017
and 73/343 of 16 September 2019, entitled “Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife”,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 1989/62 of 24 May
1989, entitled “Concerted international action against the forms of crime identified in
the Milan Plan of Action”, 1992/22 of 30 July 1992, entitled “Implementation of
General Assembly resolution 46/152 concerning operational activities and
coordination in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice”, 1993/28 of 27 July
1993, 1994/15 of 25 July 1994 and 1996/10 of 23 July 1996, entitled “The role of
criminal law in the protection of the environment”, as well as resolutions 2001/12 of
24 July 2001, 2002/18 of 24 July 2002, 2003/27 of 22 July 2003, 2011/36 of 28 July
2011 and 2013/40 of 25 July 2013 on crime prevention and criminal justice responses
to illicit trafficking in protected species of wild fauna and flora, resolution 2008/25
of 24 July 2008 on international cooperation in preventing and combating illicit
international trafficking in forest products, including timber, wildlife and other forest
biological resources, and resolutions 2013/38 of 25 July 2013 and 2019/23 of 23 July
2019 on combating illicit trafficking in precious metals and illegal mining,
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