Promoting a holistic approach to harmony with nature.

The United Nations celebrates this observance through the Harmony with Nature initiative, a platform for global sustainable development that celebrates annually an interactive dialogue on International Mother Earth Day. Topics include methods for promoting a holistic approach to harmony with nature, and an exchange of national experiences regarding criteria and indicators to measure sustainable development in harmony with nature.

On 21 December 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted the twelfth Resolution on Harmony with Nature. This resolution requests the President of the General Assembly, among others, to convene at the seventy-sixth session of the Assembly, an interactive dialogue, to be held at the plenary meetings during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day in 2022. It invites the participation of the Member States, the United Nations system, independent experts and other relevant stakeholders, to discuss the relationship between harmony with nature and the protection of biological diversity, and to inspire citizens and societies to reconsider how they interact with the natural world in the context of sustainable development.

Building on the eleveneth interactive dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, in July 2022, the Secretary-General published his eleventh report on Harmony with Nature (A/77/244). The report praises the progress in Earth Jurisprudence and the efforts by Member States to create a new narrative for a regenerative world in which Human Rights are strictly linked to the Rights of Nature, and sustainable development is uphold to ensure planetary health and the well-being of future generations.

At the 77th session of UN General Assembly in December 2022, the thirteenth resolution on Harmony with Nature (A/RES/77/169) was adopted, requesting the President of the General Assembly, among others:To discuss the possibility of convening and the scope of a high-level meeting, tentatively entitled “Earth Assembly”, to be held on 22 April 2024, so that an evolving non-anthropocentric or Earth-centred paradigm continues to reinforce multilateralism through the discussion of alternative holistic approaches based on diverse world views that may contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and beyond.
Notes with appreciation the proposal by the Head of State of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to establish a group of friends of Harmony with Nature, with a view to making innovative, transformative and action-oriented proposals for responding to present and future challenges, grounded in equity and justice.