A/HRC/28/41 same extent as were the rights to food, education, health or water and sanitation. It was also noted that long-term efforts and strong partnerships with other stakeholders were important in order to influence the process. It was agreed that mandate holders would continue to seek ways to monitor the negotiations and influence the formulation of the goals and indicators by mapping out crucial dates in the process and channels for input. The possibility of a joint statement focused on common issues, such as accountability, equality and nondiscrimination, was also discussed. 3. Climate change 67. Mandate holders focused their attention to climate change in the light of several upcoming events on the issue within the framework of the United Nations in 2015, with a view to increasing their interaction with the United Nations entities working on that issue. 68. The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Climate Change urged mandate holders to speak out about the impact of climate change on human rights as they saw it in the course of their work, and to contribute to discussions. 69. The Special Envoy emphasized that this was a crucial time for the international community and its response to climate change in the lead-up to the conclusion of a new legally binding climate agreement in December 2015. Efforts of human rights advocates had to build upon the Cancun Agreements and the language therein identifying the relationship between human rights and climate change, and support the new language to be proposed at the twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Lima, “that parties should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect, protect and fulfil human rights”. In this regard, the Council, in its resolution 10/4, had influenced the Agreements by affirming that human rights obligations and commitments had the potential to inform and strengthen international and national policymaking in the area of climate change, promoting policy coherence, legitimacy and sustainable outcomes. 70. The Coordinator and Principal Legal Adviser of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change updated participants on the status of negotiations on the climate change agreement, and explained the events and opportunities that human rights advocates, like other stakeholders, could use to express their views. Because of the Cancun Agreements, human rights were now part of the discourse and the best way to generate input was through States parties. 71. The Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment referred to his mapping report,23 which reflected the work of all special procedures on climate change. He had initiated an open letter to States parties to the Framework Convention, in which he urged them to build upon the human rights language of the Cancun Agreements and to ensure the protection and promotion of and respect for human rights in the new legally binding instrument. The letter was underwritten by other mandate holders. The representative of the United Nations Environment Programme added that the environment community was increasingly interested in incorporating human rights and the work of the special procedures, and expressed support for the open letter. Other mandate holders shared their experience of work on climate change and their views on the process and opportunities to influence discussions. They supported the need to work individually and collectively to emphasize human rights in the discussions over the next 15 months. 23 14 A/HRC/25/53.