A/RES/74/224
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 19 (i)
Sustainable development: harmony with Nature
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/381/Add.9)]
74/224.
Harmony with Nature
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming 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 and the Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), 5
Recalling its resolutions 64/196 of 21 December 2009, 65/164 of 20 December
2010, 66/204 of 22 December 2011, 67/214 of 21 December 2012, 68/216 of
20 December 2013, 69/224 of 19 December 2014, 70/208 of 22 December 2015, 71/232
of 21 December 2016, 72/223 of 20 December 2017 and 73/235 of 20 December 2018
on Harmony with Nature,
Recalling also its resolution 63/278 of 22 April 2009, by which it designated
22 April as International Mother Earth Day, commemorating 10 years since its
adoption and recognizing its importance,
Recalling further the 1982 World Charter for Nature, 6
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19-22493 (E)
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 37/7, annex.
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