Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind A/RES/73/232 highlights the synergies between the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 22 and the Paris Agreement; 4. Recalls that the Paris Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre -industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development in a manner that does not threaten food production, and making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate -resilient development; 5. Welcomes the nationally determined contributions submitted to date, and recalls that the regular updating of such contributions will reflect the highest possible level of ambition, in the light of different national circumstances, and provide the information necessary for clarity, transparency and understanding, in accordance with the relevant decisions; 6. Notes with concern that the nationally determined contributions presented thus far by the parties to the Paris Agreement are not sufficient to achieve the long term temperature goal in article 2, paragraph 1 (a), of the Agreement; 7. Urges the completion of the Paris Agreement work programme at the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and recognizes the importance of the facilitative dialogue of 2018, known as the Talanoa Dialogue, at the twenty -fourth session as an opportunity to take stock of the collective efforts of parties in relation to progress towards the long-term goal referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, of the Agreement and to inform the preparation of nationally determined contribut ions; 8. Emphasizes the need for collective efforts to promote sustainable development in its three dimensions in an innovative, coordinated, environmentally sound, open and shared manner; 9. Underlines the need to address the economic, social and environmental impacts of climate change, and emphasizes the need for action at all levels, to enhance efforts to build resilience through, inter alia, the sustainable management of ecosystems, and to build resilience to reduce the impacts and costs of natural di sasters; 10. Recognizes that enhanced access to international climate finance is important to support mitigation and adaptation efforts in developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, and also recognizes the ongoing efforts in this regard; 11. Acknowledges the work undertaken under the auspices of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, 23 and encourages non-party stakeholders to scale up their efforts to address and respond to climate change; 12. Looks forward to the climate summit called for by the Secretary-General, to be held in New York in 2019, to accelerate global action on climate change; 13. Also looks forward to the convening by the President of the General Assembly of the high-level meeting during the seventy-third session of the General Assembly on the issue of the protection of the global climate for present and future __________________ 22 23 18-22555 Resolution 70/1. See FCCC/CP/2016/10/Add.1. 5/7