A/RES/72/219
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 19 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/72/420/Add.4)]
72/219.
Protection of global climate for present and future generations
of humankind
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 43/53 of 6 December 1988, 54/222 of 22 December
1999, 62/86 of 10 December 2007, 63/32 of 26 November 2008, 64/73 of 7 December
2009, 65/159 of 20 December 2010, 66/200 of 22 December 2011, 67/210 of
21 December 2012, 68/212 of 20 December 2013, 69/220 of 19 December 2014,
70/205 of 22 December 2015 and 71/228 of 21 December 2016 and other resolutions
and decisions relating to the protection of the global climate for present and future
generations of humankind,
Recalling also, in full, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change 1 and the Paris Agreement adopted under the Convention, 2 acknowledging that
they are the primary international, intergovernmental forums for negotiating the
global response to climate change, expressing determination to address decisively the
threat posed by climate change and environmental degradation, recognizing that the
global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible international cooperation
aimed at accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions and
addressing adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change, and noting with
concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of parties’ mitigation pledges
in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate
emission pathways,
Recalling further the Paris Agreement, which, pursuant to article 2, paragraph 2,
thereof, will be implemented to reflect equity and the principle of common but
differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different
national circumstances,
Acknowledging that action on adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority
for developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the
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