Environment at 66th UN/GA

The 66th session of the UN General Assembly adopted the following environment-related resolutions: 

2 December, 2011:
Res. 66/27: Prevention of an arms race in outer space
Res. 66/29: Implementation of the convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
Res. 66/30: Relationship between disarmament and development
Res. 66/31: Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
Res. 66/35: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
Res. 66/42: Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus
Res. 66/47: The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
Res. 66/48: Reducing nuclear danger
Res. 66/52: Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
Res. 66/57: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
Res. 66/62: Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
Res. 66/64: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Res. 66/65: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

6 December, 2011:
Res. 66/68: Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments

9 December, 2011:
Res. 66/69: Assistance in mine action
Res. 66/70: Effects of atomic radiation
Res. 66/71: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
Res. 66/98: Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-third session
Res. 66/99: Effects of armed conflicts on treaties
Res. 66/100: Responsibility of international organizations
Res. 66/102: The rule of law at the national and international levels
Res. 66/103: The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction
Res. 66/104: The law of transboundary aquifers
Res. 66/110: Observer status for the International Renewable Energy Agency in the General Assembly

19 December, 2011:
Res. 66/142: Rights of indigenous peoples
Res. 66/154: Human rights and cultural diversity
Res. 66/155: The right to development
Res. 66/158: The right to food

22 December, 2011
Res. 66/190: Commodities
Res. 66/192: Oil slick on Lebanese shores
Res. 66/193: International cooperation and coordination for the human and ecological rehabilitation and economic development of the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan
Res. 66/194: Protection of coral reefs for sustainable livelihoods and development
Res. 66/196: Sustainable tourism and sustainable development in Central America
Res. 66/197: Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Res. 66/198: Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
Res. 66/199: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Res. 66/200: Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind
Res. 66/201: Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
Res. 66/202: Convention on Biological Diversity
Res. 66/203: Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-sixth session
Res. 66/204: Harmony with Nature
Res. 66/205: Sustainable mountain development
Res. 66/206: Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy
Res. 66/210: Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence
Res. 66/220: Agriculture development and food security

23 December, 2011:
Res. 66/227: International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development

24 December, 2011:
Res. 66/231: Oceans and the law of the sea

16 February, 2012
Res. 66/254: United Nations reform: measures and proposals

16 March, 2012
Res. 66/256: The United Nations in global governance

27 July, 2012
Res. 66/288: The future we want

The full text of Resolutions can be accessed at the United Nations General Assembly website:

http://www.un.org/en/ga/66/resolutions.shtml

 

 

Post-2015 and SDGs

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the members of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development. The Panel is co-chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK, with 23 additional members representing governments, the private sector, academia, civil society and youth, while serving in their personal capacity.

Terms of Reference (TOR) are now available noting that the Panel and the intergovernmental Working Group on the SDGs should keep each other informed and be mutually reinforcing, and that the Panel should advise the Secretary-General on how the SDGs relate to the broader post-2015 development agenda.

The Panel will be supported by an independent secretariat and headed by a senior official who also will serve as lead author of the Panel’s final report to comprise:
- recommendations on the “vision and shape” of a Post-2015 development agenda, building on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with a view to ending poverty;
- key principles for reshaping the global partnership for development and strengthened accountability mechanisms; and
- recommendations on creating political consensus on the post-2015 agenda, around the three dimensions of economic growth, social equality and environmental sustainability.

According to the TOR, the report will be presented to the Secretary-General in the second quarter of 2013as a "key input" to the subsequent report, on the occasion of a special event to be organized by the President of the 68th session of the UN/GA in September 2013.