A/RES/72/212
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 19
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/420)]
72/212.
Strengthening the links between all modes of transport to achieve
the Sustainable Development Goals
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1 Agenda 21, 2
the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 3 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development, 4 the Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation) 5 and the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
entitled “The future we want”, 6
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to wor king tirelessly for
the full implementation of this Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable devel opment, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and
corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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