A/RES/73/242
Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
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,
Welcoming the Paris Agreement, 3 and encouraging all its parties to fully
implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change 4 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of
ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible,
Highlighting the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement, and noting with concern the
scientific findings contained in the special report entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 5
Looking forward to the climate summit called for by the Secretary-General, to
be held in New York in 2019, to accelerate global action on climate change,
Reaffirming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from
17 to 20 October 2016, 6 and acknowledging that, in implementing the New Urban
Agenda, particular attention should be given to the unique and emerging urban
challenges faced by the least developed countries,
Recalling the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and
its guiding principles, 7 recalling also its promotion of regular disaster preparedness,
response and recovery exercises, at the national and local levels, with a view to
ensuring a rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement,
including access to essential food and non-food relief supplies, as appropriate to local
needs, and acknowledging that its implementation can contribute to achievement of
the goals and objectives of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed
Countries for the Decade 2011–2020,
Recalling also its resolution 72/231 of 20 December 2017 on the follow-up to
the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries,
Recalling further Economic and Social Council resolution 2018/26 of 24 July
2018 on the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
Decade 2011–2020,
Taking note of the 2018 Ministerial Declaration of the Least Developed
Countries, 8
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Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Global Warming of 1.5°C is a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
on the impact of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global
greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the
threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
Resolution 69/283, annex II.
A/73/455, annex.
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