A/HRC/RES/26/27 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 15 July 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 26/27 Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming 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, Recalling its resolutions 7/23 of 28 March 2008, 10/4 of 25 March 2009 and 18/22 of 17 October 2011 on human rights and climate change, and 16/11 of 24 March 2011, 19/10 of 22 March 2012 and 25/21 of 28 March 2014, on human rights and the environment, Reaffirming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the objectives and principles thereof, and emphasizing that parties should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect human rights as enunciated in the outcome of the sixteenth session of the Conference of Parties to the Convention,1 Reaffirming also the commitment to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through long-term cooperative action, in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention, Welcoming the holding of the recent Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the seventeenth Conference of the Parties, held in November 2011 in Durban, South Africa, the eighteenth Conference of the Parties, held in November 2012 in Doha, and the nineteenth Conference of the Parties, held in November 2013 in Warsaw, 1 FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, dec.1/CP.16. GE.14-08351 (E) *1408351*