A/RES/73/232. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/232
• Year: 2018
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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/RES /73/ 232

General Assembly

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11 Ja nuary 20 19

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 20 (d)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 20 December 2018

[on th e report of the Seco nd Commi ttee (A/ 73/5 38/Ad d.4 )]

73/232. Protection of global climate for pres ent and futu re generatio ns

of humanki nd

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g its resolu tions 43/5 3 of 6 Decem ber 1988, 54/2 22 of 22 Dec ember

1999 , 62/86 of 1 0 Decemb er 2007, 63 /32 o f 26 Novem ber 2008, 64/73 of 7 D ecember

2009 , 65/ 159 of 20 Dece mber 2010, 66/200 of 2 2 Decemb er 2 011, 6 7/21 0 of

21 Dece mber 201 2, 68/212 of 20 Decembe r 2013, 69 /220 of 19 D ecember 2014,

70/2 05 of 2 2 Decemb er 2015, 7 1/22 8 of 21 Decembe r 2016 and 72/219 o f

20 Dece mber 2017 and o ther r esoluti ons an d dec isions relati ng to the protect ion of

the global c limate f or prese nt and f uture ge neratio ns of hu mankind ,

Reca lling al so the United Nation s Frame work Co nventio n on Cl imate C hange

1

and th e Paris Agr eement a dopted un der the Co nventio n,

2

ack nowledgi ng that th ey are

the prima ry i nternatio nal, intergo vernment al f orums for negotia ting the g lobal

respo nse to c limate c hange, e xpressi ng deter minatio n to addr ess dec isively t he threa t

pose d by cl imate c hange a nd envi ronment al degra dation, recogni zing th at the global

natu re of clim ate chang e calls fo r the wide st possib le intern ational c ooperati on aimed

at acc eleratin g the redu ction of g lobal gr eenhouse gas emiss ions and a ddressi ng

adap tation to the adver se impacts of clim ate change, an d no ting with conc ern the

signi ficant gap between the aggrega te eff ect o f part ies’ mitig ation pledges, in

part icular their na tionall y d etermine d contribu tions, as ap propriat e, and aggreg ate

emis sion pat hways,

Reca lling furt her the Par is Agreemen t, which, p ursuant to article 2, pa ragr aph 2,

ther eof, will b e implem ented to r eflect eq uity and t he princi ple of co mmon but

diffe rentiate d respons ibilitie s and resp ective ca pabiliti es, in the li ght of diffe rent

natio nal circ umstanc es,

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1

Unit ed Nati ons, Tre aty Se ries, vol. 177 1, N o. 30 822.

2

See FCCC/C P/2 015/ 10/A dd.1 , d ecisio n 1/CP.21, annex .