Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Decides to transmit the report of the Commission to all governments and to the governing bodies of the organs, organizations and programmes of the UN System, and invites them to take account of the analysis and recommendations contained in the report of the Commission in determining their policies and programmes; calls upon all Governments to ask their central and sectoral economic agencies to ensure that their policies, programmes and budgets encourage sustainable development and to strengthen the role of their environmental and natural resource agencies in advising and assisting central and sectoral agencies in that task; calls upon the governing bodies of the organs, organizations and programmes of the UN System to review their policies, programmes, budgets and activities aimed at contributing to sustainable development; requests the Secretary-General to review and co-ordinate on a regular basis the efforts of all the organs, organizations and bodies of the UN System to pursue sustainable development, and to report thereon; agrees that the catalytic and co-ordinating role of UNEP in the UN System should be reinforced in its future work on environmental and natural resource issues; calls upon Governments to involve non-governmental organizations, industry and the scientific community more fully in national and international activities to support efforts towards sustainable development.

Adopted without vote, 96th meeting

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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. 154-156. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).