Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development A/RES/74/221 sustainable use, to help advance climate mitigation and adaptation and to reduce adverse impacts of climate change and to slow, halt and even reverse some aspects of biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and therefore invites all relevant stakeholders to pay due attention to the opportunities it presents; 39. Takes note with concern of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its special reports entitled Global Warming of 1.5°C, The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems; 40. Stresses the importance of the engagement of the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, as well as indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth, in the implementation of the three objectives of the Convention and in the achievement of the biodiversity targets, invites them to align their practices more explicitly with the objectives of the Convention, including through partnerships, in accordance with national legislation, circumstances and priorities, in this regard stresses the importance of the ongoing work of the Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity, and notes other related and complementary initiatives; 41. Notes the ongoing work of the Joint Liaison Group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Liaison Group of Biodiversity -related Conventions, acknowledges the importance of impro ving coherence in the implementation of those conventions, recognizes the importance of enhancing synergies among the biodiversity-related conventions, without prejudice to their specific objectives, in this regard notes the contribution of the United Nati ons Environment Assembly, as reflected in its resolution 2/17 of 27 May 2016, 38 and the outcomes of its fourth session, held in Nairobi from 11 to 15 March 2019, 39 in particular its ministerial declaration, and encourages the conferences of the parties to the biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to consider strengthening efforts in this regard, taking into account relevant experiences and bearing in mind the respective independent legal status and mandates of those instruments; 42. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest behind first; 43. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, at its seventy-fifth session, a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including on progress in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and difficulties encountered in the process of their implementation, and decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”. 52nd plenary meeting 19 December 2019 __________________ 38 39 19-22490 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25), annex. Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/74/25), annex I. 11/11

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