A/RES/68/216
Harmony with Nature
community and the pertinent bodies of the United Nations system to assist the
efforts of developing countries by providing capacity-building and technical
support;
11. Recognizes the need for broader measures of progress to complement
gross domestic product in order to better inform policy decisions, and in this regard
welcomes the launching by the Statistical Commission of a work programme to
develop broader measures of progress, 10 which, based on a stocktaking exercise of
current national, regional and international practices to measure progress, will
conduct a technical review of existing efforts in this area, with a view to identifying
best practices, and to facilitating the sharing of knowledge, especially for the benefit
of developing countries;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-ninth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;
13. Decides to continue the consideration of the sub-item entitled “Harmony
with Nature” at its sixty-ninth session under the item entitled “Sustainable
development”.
71st plenary meeting
20 December 2013
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 4 (E/2013/24), chap. I, sect.
C, decision 44/114.
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