A/HRC/35/14 including through schools, the media, music festivals, television shows and the organization of workshops. In Viet Nam, climate change awareness was integrated into national curricula. Once children and adults understood climate change and its impacts on children, child-centred climate policies would follow. There was also a need to enhance international cooperation on climate change, with a focus on addressing negative impacts on children and on mainstreaming children’s rights. The Deputy Minister concluded by calling upon the United Nations to lead international studies on the impact of climate change on children and thanking the United Nations for its invaluable assistance and support to Viet Nam during the previous year’s El Niño episode. 12. The Permanent Representative of Bangladesh observed that the human rights and climate change nexus had been well elaborated in previous panel discussions at the Human Rights Council. The poorest in societies were the most vulnerable to harmful effects from climate change, with the children among them being particularly vulnerable. Climate change harmed the natural system, subsequently disrupting associated social, economic, cultural and political systems. Increased numbers of natural disasters, changes in rainfall patterns and sea level rise contributed to drinking-water and sanitation crises, the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, severe malnutrition, school dropouts, forced labour, and loss of life and livelihoods. Addressing the impacts of climate change required substantial public expenditures in related sectors. Climate change, therefore, severely constrained the capacity of States to ensure children’s rights, including those to health, social security, education, protection from economic exploitation, and life. 13. The social impact of climate change on low-lying developing States could cause conflict, violence, and even mass displacement. Inadequate responses to cumulative weather-related losses and damage to lives, natural resources and livelihoods threatened more instability, with children being affected the most. Climate change would impede efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (particularly Goals 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 13 and 16), harming most those countries that had contributed the least to climate change, which included Bangladesh. Urgent and ambitious climate action was critically needed to address that challenge. It was clearly stated in the Paris Agreement that when taking climate action, States should respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, thereby establishing a basis by which all States should undertake rights-based climate action including with regard to adaptation, mitigation, finance, transfer of technology and capacity-building. Hence, the Paris Agreement offered a clear opportunity to make all climate decisions in the best interests of the child. 14. At the national level, Bangladesh had implemented its plan of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, under which the Solar Homes Programme, inter alia, had been established. That programme provided off-grid electricity access to rural areas and had extended the length of study time for children. Bangladesh also hoped to scale up the use of solar irrigation pumps and of solar mini and nano grids to improve access to electricity and increase agricultural productivity, thereby, also promoting food security for children. These were mitigation measures, with adaptation co-benefits that responded to children’s needs. The country’s Climate Change Strategy on Adaptation had been similarly designed to take into account the needs and vulnerability of children, for example by using cyclone shelters as makeshift schools during disasters. 15. The Permanent Representative suggested some possible entry points for further action under the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC, calling upon States to keep children’s rights in focus when preparing and submitting their intended nationally determined contributions; to raise the ambition of their mitigation efforts; to ensure a loss and damage system that responded adequately to human rights obligations and particularly to children’s rights; and to address the protection of children in the work of the task force on displacement established under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts. Furthermore, he called upon States to ensure responsible conduct by businesses, not only in the area of emissions reductions but also in making resources available for climate adaptation to protect children’s rights. Linking the outbreak of various communicable and non-communicable diseases due to climate change, he also underlined that States might take advantage of the latest amendment to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) with regard 4