A/RES/60/30
Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, from 16 to 20 October 2006, as an
opportunity to discuss marine debris in relation to the source categories of the
Global Programme of Action, and urges broad high-level participation;
71. Also welcomes the continued work of States, the United Nations
Environment Programme and regional organizations in the implementation of the
Global Programme of Action, and encourages increased emphasis on the link
between freshwater, the coastal zone and marine resources in the implementation of
international development goals, including those contained in the United Nations
Millennium Declaration 33 and of the time-bound targets in the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation”), 34 in particular the target on sanitation, and the Monterrey
Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development; 35
72. Notes the work under the Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal
Biological Diversity, 36 and the Convention on Biological Diversity elaborated
programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity; 37
73. Reaffirms the need for States and competent international organizations
to urgently consider ways to integrate and improve, based on the best available
scientific information and in accordance with the Convention and related
agreements and instruments, the management of risks to the marine biodiversity of
seamounts, cold water corals, hydrothermal vents and certain other underwater
features;
74. Also reaffirms the need for States to continue their efforts to develop and
facilitate the use of diverse approaches and tools for conserving and managing
vulnerable marine ecosystems, including the possible establishment of marine
protected areas, consistent with international law and based on the best scientific
information available, and the development of representative networks of any such
marine protected areas by 2012;
75. Notes the work of States, relevant intergovernmental organizations and
bodies, including the Convention on Biological Diversity, in the assessment of
scientific information on, and compilation of ecological criteria for the
identification of, marine areas that require protection, in light of the objective of the
World Summit on Sustainable Development to develop and facilitate the use of
diverse approaches and tools such as the establishment of marine protected areas
consistent with international law and based on scientific information, including
representative networks by 2012;
76. Also notes the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis reports and
the urgent need to protect the marine biodiversity expressed therein;
77. Calls upon States and international organizations to urgently take action
to address, in accordance with international law, destructive practices that have
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33
See resolution 55/2.
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.
35
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico,
18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
36
See A/51/312, annex II, decision II/10.
37
UNEP/CBD/COP/7/21, annex, decision VII/5, annex I.
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