United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/258
Distr.: General
27 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 87 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/532/Add.3)]
57/258. World Climate Change Conference
The General Assembly,
Acknowledging that change in the earth’s climate and its adverse effects are a
common concern of humankind,
Acknowledging also that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest
possible cooperation, consistent with the provisions of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change,1
Welcoming the ongoing work in the United Nations system on climate change, in
particular within the framework of the Convention, which is the key instrument for
addressing this global concern,
Taking into account the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development2
and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”),3
Taking into account also the Delhi Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change and
Sustainable Development, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its eighth session, held at New
Delhi from 23 October to 1 November 2002,
Recognizing with concern the findings of the third assessment report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,4 in which the Panel confirmed that
significant cuts in global emissions will be necessary to meet the ultimate objective of
the Convention, and recognizing the ongoing consideration by the Subsidiary Body for
Scientific and Technological Advice of the implications of the report,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
3
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
4
Climate Change 2001 (Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, July 2001 and March
2002), four volumes.
2
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