Towards the sustainable development of the Caribbean Sea for
present and future generations
A/RES/77/163
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 7 the outcome
document of the third International Conference on Small Island Deve loping States,
the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, 8 the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development 9
and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10 as well as other relevant
declarations and international instruments,
Recalling the Paris Agreement, 11 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 12 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
Recalling also the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 13
Recalling further the Declaration and review document adopted by the General
Assembly at its twenty-second special session, 14
Recognizing the efforts of Caribbean States to develop and implement strategies
for the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean and its resources, in this regard
reiterating the calls made in the declarations entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for
action” 15 and “Our ocean, our future, our responsibility”, 16 calling for further
enhanced actions to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14,
with a particular focus on targets 14.2, 14.4, 14.5 and 14.6 that matured in 2020, and
renewing the commitment to take urgent action and to cooperating at the global,
regional and subregional levels to achieve all the targets as soon as possible, without
delay,
Taking into account all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 54/225 of
22 December 1999, 55/203 of 20 December 2000, 57/261 of 20 December 2002,
59/230 of 22 December 2004, 61/197 of 20 December 2006, 63/214 of 19 December
2008, 65/155 of 20 December 2010, 67/205 of 21 December 2012, 69/216 of
19 December 2014, 71/224 of 21 December 2016, 73/229 of 20 December 2018 and
75/214 of 21 December 2020,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 17
Recalling also the Convention for the Protection and Development of the
Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, signed at Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia, on 24 March 1983, 18 and the protocols thereto, which contain the definition
of the wider Caribbean region of which the Caribbean Sea is part,
Reaffirming the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 19 which
provides the legal framework for ocean activities, and emphasizing its fundamental
character, conscious that the problems of ocean space are closely interrelate d and need
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Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 69/15, annex.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
Resolution 70/1.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
Resolution S-22/2, annex.
Resolution 71/312, annex.
Resolution 76/296, annex.
Resolution 60/1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1506, No. 25974.
Ibid., vol. 1833, No. 31363.
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