Implementation of and follow-up to the outcome of the UN Conference on Environment and Development and the 19th special session of the General Assembly

Stresses the need to accelerate the full implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21; recognizes that the Commission on Sustainable Development will continue to provide the central forum for reviewing progress and for urging further implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and other commitments made at the UN Conference on Environment and Development; calls upon the Commission on Sustainable Development to play its role in assessing the challenges of globalization as they relate to sustainable development and to perform its functions in coordination with other subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council and with related organizations and institutions; emphasizes that the achievement of more substantive results by the next review of the implementation of Agenda 21 in 2002 will require concerted efforts at all levels, including by Governments, calls upon all countries to fulfil their commitments to Agenda 21; underscores the importance of the continued active and collaborative involvement of all relevant bodies of the UN system in the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly for its consideration at future sessions, through the Economic and Social Council in view of its coordination function, an analytical report on the measures taken within the UN system to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementaiton of Agenda 21.

Adopted without vote, 91st meeting

Adopted at the 91st plenary meeting, 15 Dec. 1998.