A/RES/68/212 Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind on Climate Change and of the third to eighth sessions of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, 6 the Mauritius Declaration 7 and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States8 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, adopted at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9 to 13 May 2011,9 Recalling also 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”,10 Reaffirming its commitment to the ultimate objective of the Convention, namely, to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, and reaffirming also that such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner, Reaffirming also the financial obligations under the Convention of developed country parties and other developed parties included in annex II to the Convention and under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 11 Recognizing the importance of transparency in proceedings of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, Noting the decision of the parties to the Convention to adopt a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties at its twenty-first session, to be held from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and for it to come into effect and be implemented from 2020, 1. Takes note of the outcome of the eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and of the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, hosted by the Government of Qatar in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012; 12 2. Reaffirms that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, expresses profound alarm that the emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise globally, remains deeply concerned that all countries, particularly developing _______________ 6 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April–6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 7 Report of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Port Louis, Mauritius, 10–14 January 2005 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.05.II.A.4 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 8 Ibid., annex II. 9 Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul, Turkey, 9–13 May 2011 (A/CONF.219/7), chap. II. 10 Resolution 66/288, annex. 11 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2303, No. 30822. 12 FCCC/CP/2012/8/Add.1–3 and FCCC/KP/CMP/2012/13/Add.1 and 2 and Add.2/Corr.1. 2/5