Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
and its contribution to sustainable development
A/RES/71/230
reflected in its resolution 2/17 of 27 May 2016, 28 and encourages the conferences of
the parties to the biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to
consider strengthening efforts in this regard, taking into account relevant
experiences and bearing in mind the respective independent legal status and
mandates of those instruments;
22. Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind
and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;
23. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution,
including the outcome of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
the Convention on Biological Diversity and progress in the implementation of the
Convention and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and difficulties encountered in the
process of their implementation, and decides to include, under the item entitled
“Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological
Diversity” in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, unless otherwise
agreed.
66th plenary meeting
21 December 2016
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/71/25),
annex.
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