Strengthening cooperation for integrated coastal zone
management for achieving sustainable development
A/RES/76/212
Reaffirming the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 9 which
provides the legal framework for ocean activities, and emphasizing its fundamental
character, conscious that the problems of ocean space are closely interrelated and need
to be considered as a whole through an integrated, interdisciplinary and intersectoral
approach,
Recalling the ecosystem approach advocated in the Convention on Biological
Diversity, 10 which is described as a strategy for the integrated management of land,
water and living resources that promotes conservatio n and sustainable use in an
equitable way, welcoming in this regard the hosting of the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention, as well as the meetings of the Conference
of the Parties serving as the Meetings of the Parties to the Protocols to the Convention,
by the Government of China, to be held in Kunming, and welcoming the hosting by
the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in
Glasgow, in partnership with Italy, of the twenty -sixth session of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
Reaffirming the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want” and, inter alia, the
commitments concerning the coastal and marine environment contained therein,
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in wh ich
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 further its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Reaffirming the Paris Agreement 11 and its early entry into force, encouraging all
its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 12 that have not yet done so to deposit their
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as
soon as possible,
Noting with concern the findings contained in the special reports of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C, The
Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and Climate Change and Land, as well
as the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report entitled Climate Change 2021: The
Physical Science Basis,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619.
Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
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