A/RES/72/220
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 19 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/420/Add.5)]
72/220.
Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought
and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/229 of 21 December 2016, as well as other
resolutions relating to the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 1
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 wor king 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, and
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,
Recalling that, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the
international community committed to combating desertification, restoring degraded
land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and fl oods, and
striving to achieve a land degradation-neutral world by 2030,
Acknowledging that action to combat desertification, restore degraded land and
soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and achieve a land
degradation-neutral world can deliver multiple benefits and that land degradation
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