A/RES/74/227
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 19 (l)
Sustainable development: sustainable mountain
development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/381/Add.12)]
74/227.
Sustainable mountain development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/189 of 20 December 2000, 57/245 of 20 December
2002, 58/216 of 23 December 2003 and 59/238 of 22 December 2004, and its
resolutions 60/198 of 22 December 2005, 62/196 of 19 December 2007, 64/205 of
21 December 2009, 66/205 of 22 December 2011, 68/217 of 20 December 2013 and
71/234 of 21 December 2016, entitled “Sustainable mountain development”,
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,
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, inter alia,
recognizes that economic and social development depends on the sustainable
management of our planet’s natural resources and confirms the determination of the
international community to conserve and sustainably use oceans and seas and
freshwater resources, as well as forests, mountains and drylands, and to protect
biodiversity, ecosystems and wildlife,
Reaffirming its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which
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