United Nations
A/RES/71/221
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 19
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/463)]
71/221. Entrepreneurship for sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 67/202 of 21 December 2012 and 69/210 of
19 December 2014,
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 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 require ment 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 Go als and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 70/299 of 29 July 2016 on the follow-up and
review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level,
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 Sus tainable
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,
Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, 1 and reaffirming that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, among
other things, seeks to develop and implement holistic disaster risk management at
all levels in line with the Sendai Framework,
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Resolution 69/283, annexes I and II.
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