A/RES/73/284
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030)
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, and
its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementa tion targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and soli darity,
Emphasizing the need for collective efforts to promote sustainable development
in its three dimensions in an innovative, coordinated, environmentally sound, open
and shared manner,
Underlining that several targets related to ecosystem restoration contained in
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have a deadline of 2020 and that urgent
action is therefore needed to achieve them,
Emphasizing that forests, wetlands, drylands and other natural ecosystems are
essential for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and improved human wellbeing,
Stressing the importance of the ecosystem approach for the integrated
management of land, water and living resources and the need to step up efforts to
tackle desertification, land degradation, er osion and drought, biodiversity loss and
water scarcity, which are seen as major environmental, economic and social
challenges for global sustainable development,
Recalling United Nations Environment Assembly resolutions calling for the
conservation and restoration of ecosystems, 7
Reaffirming the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from
17 to 20 October 2016, 8 and its vision for cities and human settlements that protect,
conserve, restore and promote their ecosystems, water, natural habitats and
biodiversity, minimize their environmental impact and change to sustainable
consumption and production patterns,
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Including resolutions 1/5 on chemicals and waste and 1/8 on ecosystem-based adaptation (see Official
Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/69/25), annex); resolutions
2/8 on sustainable consumption and production, 2/13 on sustainable management of natural capital for
sustainable development and poverty eradication, 2/16 on the mainstreaming of biodiversity for well-being
and 2/24 on combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting sustainable pastoralism
and rangelands (see Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 25
(A/71/25), annex); and resolutions ¾ on environment and health (UNEP/EA.3/Res.4), 3/6 on managing
soil pollution to achieve sustainable development(UNEP/EA.3/Res.6), 3/7 on marine litter and
microplastics (UNEP/EA.3/Res.7) and 3/10 on addressing water pollution to protect and restore waterrelated ecosystems (UNEP/EA.3/Res.10).
Resolution 71/256, annex.
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