International Year of Creative Economy
for Sustainable Development, 2021
A/RES/74/198
it is stated that an international day or year should not be proclaimed before the basic
arrangements for its organization and financing have been made,
Recognizing that the creative economy, known as the “orange economy” in a
number of countries, involves, inter alia, knowledge-based economic activities and
the interplay between human creativity and ideas, knowledge and technology, as well
as cultural values or artistic, cultural heritage and other individual or collective
creative expressions,
Recalling the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, which states that the organization, as part of its purposes and
functions, will maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge by encouraging cooperation
among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, and noting the report of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on culture and
sustainable development, 1 in which it is stated that cultural and creative industries
should be part of economic growth strategies,
Recognizing the ongoing need to support developing countries and countries
with economies in transition in diversifying production and exports, including in new
sustainable growth areas, including creative industries,
Recommitting to sustaining and supporting developing countries’ economies to
transition progressively to higher productivity through high-value-added sectors, by
promoting diversification, technological upgrading, research and innovation,
including the creation of quality, decent and productive jobs, including through the
promotion of cultural and creative industries, sustainable tourism, performing arts
and heritage conservation activities, among others,
Recognizing that the international community should support national efforts of
developing countries to increase their participation in and benefit from dynamic
sectors and to foster, protect and promote their creative industries, including by way
of strategies to appropriately protect and enforce intellectual property,
Acknowledging that creative industries can help to foster positive externalities
while preserving and promoting cultural heritages and diversity, as well as enhance
developing countries’ participation in and benefit from new and dynamic growth
opportunities in world trade,
Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization,
the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, the World Intellectual
Property Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and other entities of the United Nations system to promote the creative economy for
sustainable development,
Noting with appreciation the efforts to promote the creative economy in various
international and regional conferences, including the first World Conference on
Creative Economy, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 6 to 8 November 2018, and the
Global Summit on the Orange Economy, held in Medellín, Colombia, on 9 and
10 September 2019, and looking forward to the convening of the second World
Conference on Creative Economy, to be held in the United Arab Emirates in 2020,
while taking note of the outcome document, the Bali Agenda for Creative Economy,
and recognizing the role of the creative economy in supporting the Sustainable
Development Goals and that the protection and enforcement of intellectual property
rights can bolster and enhance the creative economy,
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See A/69/216.
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