Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

Encourages Member States that have not ratified or acceded to the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to do so with a view to bringing it into force; calls upon all States parties to continue to take effective steps to implement their commitments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; encourages all countries to work constructively towards advancing the work necessary for the timely entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation; approves the continuation of the institutional linkage of the Convention secretariat to UN, as advised by the Secretary-General and approved by the Conference of the Parties at its 5th session; encourages the conferences of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, to examine further appropriate opportunities and measures to strengthen their complementarities and to improve scientific assessments of ecological linkages between the 3 conventions; encourages the secretariats of various environmental and environment-related conventions and other international organizations to strengthen cooperation with a view to facilitating progress in their implementation at the international, regional and national levels; requests the Secretary-General to review the functioning of this institutional linkage not later than 31 December 2001; decides to include in the calendar of conferences and meetings for the biennium 2000-2001 the sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies envisaged for that biennium.

Adopted without vote, 87th meeting

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Adopted at the 87th plenary meeting, 22 Dec. 1999.