A/HRC/42/26 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 July 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary of the panel discussion on women’s rights and climate change: climate action, good practices and lessons learned Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 38/4, in which the Human Rights Council decided to hold a panel discussion on the theme of women’s rights and climate change: climate action, best practices and lessons learned, during its forty-first session. The Council also requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a summary report of the panel discussion to the Human Rights Council at its forty-second session. The present report summarizes the panel discussion on human rights and climate change that was held on 28 June 2019. * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.19-12615(E) 