Commodities A/RES/72/205 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, Recalling that, in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, Heads of State and Government expressed concern about the excessive volatili ty of commodity prices, including for food and agriculture, and its consequences for global food security and improved nutrition outcomes, called for the adoption of measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and for the adoption by relevant regulatory bodies of measures to facilitate timely, accurate and transparent access to market information in an effort to ensure that commodity markets appropriately reflect underlying demand and supply changes and to help limit the excessive volatility of commodity prices, noted the Agricultural Market Information System hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and called for the provision of access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets, consistent with sustainable management practices as well as initiatives that add value to outputs from small-scale fishers, Welcoming the Paris Agreement 10 and its early entry into force, encouraging all its parties to fully implement the Agreement, and parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 11 that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where appropriate, as soon as possible, Welcoming also the outcome of the fourteenth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 12 and taking note of the decisions and agreed conclusions on commodities adopted by the Trade and Development Board and its subsidiary bodies in 2014, 2015 and 2016, Taking note of the Arusha Declaration and Plan of Action on African Commodities, adopted at the African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade on Commodities, held in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania, from 21 to 2 3 November 2005, and endorsed by the Executive Council of the African Union at its eighth ordinary session, held in Khartoum from 16 to 21 January 2006, 13 Recalling the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation) 14 and the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, entitled “The future we want”, 15 Taking note of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development “Commodities and development reports” of 2012 and of 2015, and noting the role that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has been playing as an institution in looking at the interaction between commodity markets and economic development and in the elaboration of the concept of commodity-dependent developing countries, __________________ 10 11 12 13 14 15 17-23270 Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. See TD/519, TD/519/Add.1, TD/519/Add.2 and TD/519/Add.2/Corr.1. See A/60/693, annex II, decision EX.CL/Dec.253 (VIII). 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 2, annex. Resolution 66/288, annex. 3/8