A/RES/76/209
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 20 (h)
Sustainable development: education for
sustainable development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2021
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/76/533/Add.8, para. 7)]
76/209.
Education for sustainable development in the framework of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 74/223 of 19 December 2019 and other previous
resolutions on education for sustainable 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,
Reaffirming also its resolution 75/233 of 21 December 2020 on the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system and its general guidelines and principles, as well as its resolution
72/279 of 31 May 2018 and Economic and Social Council resolution 2020/23 of
22 July 2020, and welcoming the efforts of the Secretary-General to better
position the United Nations operational activities for development to support
countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda,
Reaffirming further the commitment made in the 2030 Agenda to ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities
for all,
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