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EU General Statement – UN General Assembly 2nd Committee: Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

22.11.2022
New York
Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in New York

21 November 2022, New York - General Statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States delivered by Sylvain Gambert, EU Delegation to the UN, at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee Agenda Item 18(a): Adoption of “Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production patterns for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, building on Agenda 21”

Mr Chair,

 

I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of the EU and its Member States.

The Candidate Countries Türkiye, Montenegro*, Serbia*, Albania*, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, the potential candidate countries Bosnia and Herzegovina* and Georgia, as well as Monaco align themselves with this statement.

At the outset, we would like to thank the co-facilitators from Belize and Finland as well as the secretariat and all delegations involved in the negotiation process.

Today´s consensus on this resolution underlines once more the universal relevance of sustainable consumption and production for the sustainable transformation of our economies and for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

After two years of limited negotiations, we engaged this year with the key aim to update this resolution reflecting the ambition and action-orientation of recent commitments made by member states and the UN system on the subject.

While the consensus we have reached does not fully comply with the initial desire of the group, we jointly made some considerable progress this year. We welcome in particular the reference to the decision of the Board of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns to approve the Global Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production 2023–2030, as well as references to key decisions taken at the United Nations Environment Assembly earlier this year, including on Circular Economy.

Nevertheless, we note that the resolution does not yet fully reflect its focus on SCP and SDG 12 and still contains many paragraphs that are general, and retrospective considerations around sustainable development. We are looking forward to further streamline the text and to jointly strengthen the forward-looking and action-oriented aspiration of this resolution in the next session.

I thank you.

 

* Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.