A/RES/73/237
Combating sand and dust storms
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 ent itled Global Warming of 1.5°C
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Looking forward to the climate change summit to be convened by the SecretaryGeneral in 2019 to accelerate global action on climate change,
Recalling United Nations Environment Assembly resolutions 1/7 of 27 June
2014 on strengthening the role of the United Nations Environment Programme in
promoting air quality 3 and 2/21 of 27 May 2016 on sand and dust storms, 4
Recalling also the outcomes of the thirteenth session of the Conference of the
Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those
Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in
Africa, held in Ordos, China, from 6 to 16 September 2017, including decision
31/COP.13 of 15 September 2017 on the Policy Advocacy Framework to combat Sand
and Dust Storms, 5
Noting the adoption, by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific at its seventy-second session, of resolution 72/7 of 19 May 2016 on regional
cooperation to combat sand and dust storms in Asia and the Pacific,
Recalling its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, in which it endorsed the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
entitled “The future we want”,
Recalling also its resolutions 71/229 of 21 December 2016 and 72/220 of
20 December 2017 on the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa,
Taking note of the Regional Programme to Combat Sand and Dust Storms of the
United Nations Environment Programme, and taking note also of other initiatives,
including the ministerial meeting on sand and dust storms held in Nairobi on
21 February 2013 on the margins of the twenty-seventh session of the Governing
Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment
Programme,
Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution
69/283 of 3 June 2015, and recognizing that one of the priorities for action of the
Framework is an understanding of disaster risk for prevention and mitigation and for
the development and implementation of appropriate preparedness and effective
response to disasters, which continue to undermine efforts to achieve sustainable
development,
Acknowledging that, based on the notion of hazards as defined in the Hyogo
Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and
Communities to Disasters, 6 addressing multidimensional hazards, including those
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/69/25),
annex.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25), annex.
See ICCD/COP(13)/21/Add.1.
A/CONF.206/6 and A/CONF.206/6/Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 2.
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