Commission on Sustainable Development – Report on the seventh session

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Release Year 1999

Related Key Topics Coral Reefs and UN

Commission on Sustainable Development – Report on the seventh session (1 May and 27 July 1998, and 19–30 April 1999).

2. Other marine living resources

21. The Commission endorses the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) call to action, its renewed call to action and its framework for action, and urges implementation of complementary actions by States, intergovernmental organizations and other bodies (in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity), non-governmental organizations and the private sector. The Commission also asks the United Nations system to provide information on progress in implementing ICRI objectives at the conclusion of the period of the current framework for action in 2003.