A/RES/67/212
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 20 (f)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2012
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/67/437/Add.6)]
67/212. Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
and its contribution to sustainable development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 64/203 of 21 December 2009, 65/161 of 20 December
2010 and 66/202 of 22 December 2011 and previous resolutions relating to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, 1
Recalling also the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, 2 the
Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 3 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development 4 and the Plan of Implementation of the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation), 5 the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 6 and the outcome
document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals, 7
Reaffirming the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 8 and its
principles,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619.
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annexes I and II.
3
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
4
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 1, annex.
5
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
6
Resolution 66/288, annex.
7
Resolution 65/1.
8
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro,
3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
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