27 July 1989

36th plenary meeting

Strengthening international co-operation on the environment: provision of additional financial resources to developing countries

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972 on institutional and financial arrangements for international environmental co-operation, in particular, section III, paragraph 4, thereof,

Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1988/69 of 28 July 1988,

Taking note of the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme,

1. Concludes that increasing attention needs to be paid to the provision of new and additional financial resources to developing countries for enviornmental programmes and projects so as to ensure that their development priorities are not adversely affected and that such provision should be kept under more effective and continuous review;

2. Recommends that, during the preparatory process for the proposed United Nations conference on environment and development and at the proposed conference itself, careful consideration should be given to this question with a view to enabling the conference to establish modalities for effective monitoring or review, in order to provide a factual basis for promoting appropriate action.