Harmony with Nature
A/RES/72/223
(a) To further build up a knowledge network in order to advance a holistic
conceptualization of sustainable development in its three dimensions to identify
different economic approaches that reflect the drivers and values of living in harmony
with nature, relying on current scientific information to achieve sustainable
development, and to facilitate support for and recognition of the fundamental
interconnections between humankind and nature;
(b) To promote harmony with the Earth, including as found in indigenous
cultures, to learn from those cultures and to support and promote efforts being made
from the national level down to the local community level to reflect the protection of
nature;
9.
Encourages all countries to develop and strengthen the quality and
quantity of basic national statistical data on the three dimensions of sustainable
development, and invites the international community and the pertinent bodies of the
United Nations system to assist the efforts of developing countries by providing
capacity-building and technical support;
10. Recognizes the need for broader measures of progress to complement gross
domestic product in order to better inform policy decisions, and in this regard notes
the ongoing work of the Statistical Commission on a work programme to develop
broader measures of progress and to conduct a technical review of existing efforts in
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11. 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;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and
decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the
item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Harmony with
Nature”, unless otherwise agreed.
74th plenary meeting
20 December 2017
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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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