A/HRC/7/78 page 65 4. Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with the independent expert and invites them to share best practices with the independent expert, and to provide him/her with all the necessary information related to the mandate to enable him/her to fulfil the mandate; 5. Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item at its tenth session. 41st meeting 28 March 2008 Adopted without a vote. See chapter III. 7/23. Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Concerned that climate change poses an immediate and far-reaching threat to people and communities around the world and has implications for the full enjoyment of human rights, Recognizing that climate change is a global problem and that it requires a global solution, Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Noting the findings of the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including that the warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely human-induced, Recognizing that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change remains the comprehensive global framework to deal with climate change issues, reaffirming the principles of the Framework Convention as contained in article 3 thereof, and welcoming the decisions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, and in particular the adoption of the Bali Action Plan, Recalling that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action reaffirmed the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development, as a universal and inalienable right and as an integral part of fundamental human rights, Recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and that the right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet the development and environmental needs of present and future generations, Recognizing also that the world’s poor are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, in particular those concentrated in high-risk areas, and also tend to have more limited adaptation capacities,