Adopts the Environmental Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond, contained in the annex to the resolution, as a broad framework to guide national action and international co-operation on policies and programmes aimed at achieving environmentally sound development, and specifically as a guide to the preparation of further system-wide medium-term environment programmes and the medium-term programmes of the organizations and bodies of the UN System, in the light of Governing Council decision 14/13; requests the Governing Council to keep under review the extent to which the long-term environmental actions recommended in the Environmental Perspective have been implemented and to identify any environmental concerns that may arise; endorses the priorities and functions for UNEP set out in paragraph 117 of the Environmental Perspective; decides to transmit the text of the Environmental Perspective to all Governments and to the governing bodies of the organs and organizations of the UN System as a broad framework to guide national action and international co-operation on policies and programmes aimed at achieving environmentally sound and sustainable development; requests the governing bodies of relevant UN organizations to report regularly to the General Assembly on the progress made in achieving the objectives of environmentally sound and sustainable development in line with paragraph 114 of the Environmental Perspective.

Adopted without vote, 96th meeting

Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987)

42 p.

Adopted at the 96th plenary meeting, 11 Dec. 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 141-154. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).