A/RES/68/217
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 19 (i)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/438/Add.9)]
68/217. Sustainable mountain development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/189 of 20 December 2000, 57/245 of 20 December
2002, 58/216 of 23 December 2003, 59/238 of 22 December 2004, 60/198 of
22 December 2005, 62/196 of 19 December 2007, 64/205 of 21 December 2009 and
66/205 of 22 December 2011,
Reaffirming chapter 13 of Agenda 21 1 and all relevant paragraphs of the Plan
of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation), 2 in particular paragraph 42 thereof, as the overall policy
frameworks for sustainable development in mountain regions,
Reaffirming also the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 3
Recognizing that the benefits derived from mountain regions are essential for
sustainable development and that mountain ecosystems play a crucial role in
providing water resources to a large portion of the world’s population,
Recognizing also that fragile mountain ecosystems are particularly vulnerable
to the adverse impacts of climate change, deforestation and forest degradation, land
use change, land degradation and natural disasters, and that mountain glaciers
around the world are retreating and getting thinner, with increasing impacts on the
environment and human well-being,
Acknowledging that, despite the progress that has been made in promoting
sustainable development of mountain regions and conservation of mountain
ecosystems, including their biodiversity, poverty, food insecurity, social exclusion
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1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.
2
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 2, annex.
3
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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