A/RES/67/210
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 20 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2012
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/67/437/Add.4)]
67/210. 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 and 66/200 of 22 December 2011
and other resolutions and decisions relating to the protection of the global climate
for present and future generations of humankind,
Recalling also the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, 1 including the acknowledgement that the global nature of climate
change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their
participation in an effective and appropriate international response, in accordance
with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and
social and economic conditions,
Acknowledging that the developed country parties must take the lead in
combating climate change and its adverse effects,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development 3 and the Plan of Implementation of the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation), 4 the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 5 the outcome of the thirteenth
session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention and of the third session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the
Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
Resolution 55/2.
3
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 1, annex.
4
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
5
Resolution 60/1.
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