Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its 24th session : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Decides to declare the decade 2010-2020 as the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, based on the recommendation of the Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme at its 24th session; stresses the need to further advance and fully implement the Bali Strategic Plan for Technology Support and Capacity-building; emphasizes the need to further enhance coordination and cooperation among the relevant UN organizations in the promotion of the environmental dimension of sustainable development; invites Governments that are in a position to do so to increase their contributions to the Environment Fund; emphasizes the importance of the Nairobi headquarters location of the UN Environment Programme, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the resource needs of the Programme and the UN Office at Nairobi under review so as to permit the delivery, in an effective manner, of necessary services to the Programme and to the other UN organs and organizations in Nairobi.

Adopted without vote, 78th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 62nd sess., Suppl. no. 49.