Calls upon all Governments to request their central economic and sectoral agencies to ensure that their policies, programme and budgets encourage sustainable development and to strengthen the role of their environmental and natural resource agencies in advising and assisting the central and other sectoral agencies in that task; requests the organizations of the UN system concerned to include in their reports to the General Assembly at its 44th session an account of the measures they have taken to give effect to the provisions of General Assembly resolutions 42/184 and 42/187 calling on them to provide additional resources to developing countries.

Adopted without vote, 40th meeting

Adopted at the 40th plenary meeting, 28 July 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1988, Geneva, 6-29 July 1988. - E/1988/INF/8. - 11 Aug. 1988. - p. 41-42. - Issued in ESCOR, 1988, Suppl. no. 1A.