A/HRC/RES/38/4 sanitation, health-care services and medicines, education and training, adequate housing and access to decent work, Recognizing also that women are not only victims but also agents of change, and that the integration of a gender-responsive approach into climate policies, including by conducting gender analysis, ensuring women’s right to participate, access to education and training and access to and control over adequate resources, such as clean energy and technology, would increase the effectiveness of climate change mitigation and adaptation, Noting that gender-responsive climate policies continue to require further strengthening in all activities concerning adaptation, mitigation and related means of implementation, such as finance, technology development and transfer, and capacitybuilding, Expressing concern that countries lacking the resources to implement their adaptation plans and programmes of action and effective adaptation strategies may suffer from higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries, including those in least developed countries and small island developing States, Taking into account the imperatives of a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities, Recalling that the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change acknowledges that climate change is a common concern of humankind and that parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity, Urging States that have not already ratified the Paris Agreement and the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to do so, Emphasizing the importance of implementing the commitments undertaken under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on mitigation, adaptation and the provision of finance, technology transfer and capacity-building to developing countries, and emphasizing also that realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement would enhance the implementation of the Convention and would ensure the greatest possible adaptation and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change on present and future generations, Welcoming the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Climate Change Conference, organized by Fiji and held in Bonn, Germany in November 2017 and April and May 2018 respectively, and looking forward to the twenty-forth session of the Conference of the Parties in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, Reaffirming the need for the continuing implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, and its references to human rights, Noting the importance for some of the concept of “climate justice” when taking action to address climate change, Welcoming the convening of the intersessional panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders, and taking note of the summary report on the panel discussion prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,4 4 A/HRC/35/14. 3