Culture and sustainable development
A/RES/74/230
achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, achieve better
educational results and acquire a broader and more diverse range of skills and
competences;
(e) To promote capacity-building, where appropriate, at all levels for the
development of dynamic cultural and creative sectors, in particular by encouraging
creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, supporting the development of cultural
institutions and cultural and creative sectors, providing technical and vocational
training for culture professionals and increasing employment opportunities in the
cultural and creative sectors for sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth
and development;
(f) To actively support the emergence of local markets for cultural goods and
services and to facilitate the effective and licit access of such goods and services to
international markets, taking into account the expanding range of cultural production
and consumption and, for States parties thereto, the provisions of the Convention on
the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; 4
(g) To promote the diversity of and the access to cultural expressions in the
digital environment;
(h) To preserve and maintain local and indigenous traditional knowledge and
community practices of environmental management, which are valuable examples of
culture as a vehicle for sustainable development, and to foster synergies between
modern science and technology and local and indigenous knowledge, practices and
innovation;
(i) To accelerate efforts to protect cultural and natural heritage from extreme
weather events, sea level rise, desertification and other threats exacerbated by climate
change, which jeopardize its integrity and preservation for present and future
generations;
(j) To promote global awareness of the linkages between cultural and
biological diversity, including through the protection and preservation and
encouragement of the customary use of biological resources, in accordance with
traditional cultural practices, as an important element of a comprehensive approach
to sustainable development;
(k) To support national legal frameworks and policies for the protection and
preservation of cultural heritage and cultural property, encouraging initiatives to fight
against illicit trafficking in cultural property, and for the return of cultural property,
in accordance with national legislation and applicable international legal frameworks;
(l) To support national legal frameworks and policies to enable intellectual
property rights to sustain those involved in cultural creativity, including by promoting
international cooperation to prevent the misappropriation of creative works;
(m) To promote access to and/or the repatriation of ceremonial objects and
human remains in their possession through fair, transparent and effective mechanisms
developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned;
(n) To note that, in achieving these objectives, innovative mechanisms of
financing, public and private, can make a positive contribution in assisting developing
countries in mobilizing additional resources for development on a stable, predictable
and voluntary basis, and to reiterate that such voluntary mechanisms should be
effective, should aim to mobilize resources that are stable and predictable, should
supplement and not be a substitute for traditional sources of financing, should be
disbursed in accordance with the priorities of developing countries and should not
unduly burden such countries;
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