andsustained economic growth, promotion of social equity, and protectionof the environment, while enhancing gender equality and womensempowerment, and equal opportunities for all, and the protection,survival and development of children to their full potential,including through education.12.We resolve to take urgent action to achieve sustainable development.We therefore renew our commitment to sustainable development,assessing the progress to date and the remaining gaps in theimplementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainabledevelopment and addressing new and emerging challenges. We expressour determination to address the themes of the Conference, namely agreen economy in the context of sustainable development and povertyeradication, and the institutional framework for sustainabledevelopment.13.We recognize that peoples opportunities to influence their livesand future, participate in decision making and voice their concernsare fundamental for sustainable development. We underscore thatsustainable development requires concrete and urgent action. It canonly be achieved with a broad alliance of people, governments, civilsociety and private sector, all working together to secure the futurewe want for present and future generations.II.Renewing Political CommitmentA.Reaffirming Rio principles and past action plans14.We recall the Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conferenceon the Human Environment adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972.15.We reaffirm all the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environmentand Development, including, interalia,the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, as setout in Principle 7 of the Rio Declaration.16.We reaffirm our commitment to fully implement the Rio Declaration onEnvironment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the FurtherImplementation of Agenda 21, the Plan of Implementation of the WorldSummit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Declaration onSustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation) of the WorldSummit on Sustainable Development, the Barbados Programme of Actionand the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation. We also reaffirm ourcommitment to the full implementation of the Istanbul Programme ofAction for Least Developed Countries (IPOA), the Almaty Programme ofAction for Landlocked Developing Countries, the Political declarationon Africas development needs, and the New Partnership for AfricasDevelopment. We recall as well our commitments in the outcomes of allthe major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic,social and environmental fields, including the UN MillenniumDeclaration and the 2005 World Summit outcome, the MonterreyConsensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, theoutcome document of the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the UN GeneralAssembly on the MDGs, the Programme of Action of the InternationalConference on Population and Development, the Key Actions for FurtherImplementation of the Programme of Action, and the BeijingDeclaration and Platform for Action.17.We recognize the importance of the three Rio Conventions to advancingsustainable development and in this regard we urge all Parties tofully implement their commitments under the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on BiologicalDiversity (CBD) and the United Nations Convention to CombatDesertification (UNCCD), in accordance with their respectiveprinciples and provisions, as well as to take effective and concreteactions and measures at all levels, and to enhance internationalcooperation.18.We are determined to reinvigorate political will and to raise thelevel of commitment by the international community to move thesustainable development agenda forward, through the achievement ofthe internationally agreed development goals including the MillenniumDevelopment Goals. We further reaffirm our respective commitments toother relevant internationally agreed goals in the