A/HRC/32/23 be benefiting. With regard to environmental issues, the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters provides a potential model for promoting good environmental governance and addressing the interlinked rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice.52 IV. Climate change and the human right to health 42. The protection of all human rights from the impact of climate change is fundamental for the protection of the right to health. Internationally, however, there is growing recognition of the specific interlinkages between climate change and the human right to health. Elements of this relationship are recognized in the text of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Article 1 defines the adverse effects of climate change as changes in the physical environment or biotite resulting from climate change which have significant deleterious effects on human health and welfare. Article 3 calls upon Parties to the Convention to take measures to minimize the causes of climate change and minimize its adverse effects, including on health. Article 4 further calls for Parties to minimize the public health implications of mitigation and adaptation projects and measures they undertake, using relevant tools such as impact assessments. The first direct reference to human rights in the context of the Convention was made in 2010 in decision 1/CP.16, in which the Conference of the Parties refers to Human Rights Council resolution 10/4 in which the Council recognizes the adverse effects of climate change on the effective enjoyment of human rights. In the decision, it is emphasized that Parties to the Convention should fully respect human rights in all climate change-related actions. 43. Subsequent negotiations and discussions led to the inclusion of human rights language in the outcome reached at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The outcome of the twenty-first session makes reference to the outcome of the sixteenth session, which included health as a priority sector for adaptation, and includes explicit references to the right to health in the preambles of both its decision and the Paris Agreement. The outcome emphasizes the importance of health co-benefits under the section relating to enhanced action prior to 2020. The Agreement also calls on States to respect, promote and consider human rights, including the right to health, in their respective climate actions. 44. The right to health is explicitly protected in a number of international human rights treaties, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Countries that have ratified international legal instruments relating to climate change and/or the right to health are obliged to implement them and translate their obligations into national law. 45. States, therefore, have clear obligations to take measures to prevent and remedy the negative impacts of climate change on the right to health, including with regard to the environmental and social determinants of health. This was explicitly recognized by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its general comment No. 15 (2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, in which the Committee calls on States to take measures that address the dangers and risks that local 52 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe input. 13