A/RES/65/164
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 March 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 20 (i)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2010
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/65/436/Add.9)]
65/164. Harmony with Nature
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1
Agenda 21, 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
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Recalling its resolution 64/196 of 21 December 2009 on Harmony with Nature
and its resolution 63/278 of 22 April 2009, by which it designated 22 April as
International Mother Earth Day,
Recalling also the 1982 World Charter for Nature, 6
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Recalling further its resolution 47/193 of 22 December 1992, by which it
declared 22 March the World Day for Water, its resolution 49/114 of 19 December
1994, by which it proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the
Preservation of the Ozone Layer, its resolution 55/201 of 20 December 2000, in
which it proclaimed 22 May the International Day for Biological Diversity, its
resolution 61/193 of 20 December 2006 on the International Year of Forests, 2011,
and its resolution 64/253 of 23 February 2010, entitled “International Day of
Nowruz”,
Noting the first Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights
of Mother Earth, hosted by the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Cochabamba from 20
to 22 April 2010,
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1
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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Ibid., annex 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 37/7, annex.
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