A/RES/75/271
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 April 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 19
Sustainable development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 April 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.73 and A/75/L.73/Add.1)]
75/271.
Nature knows no borders: transboundary cooperation – a key
factor for biodiversity conservation, restoration and
sustainable use
The General Assembly,
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 working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the 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 development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic,
social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon
the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their
unfinished business,
Emphasizing the importance of conserving and sustainably using biodiversity
and restoring and maintaining healthy ecosystems for the achie vement of all the
Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling its resolution 75/219 of 21 December 2020, entitled “Implementation
of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable
development”, which calls upon parties to the Convention and stakeholders to
strengthen international cooperation measures for the fulfilment of obligations
contained in the Convention,
Recalling also its resolution 73/284 of 1 March 2019, in which it proclaimed the
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030),
Recalling further its resolution 74/227 of 19 December 2019, entitled
“Sustainable mountain development”, which, inter alia, invites States to strengthen
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