A/HRC/35/14 welcomed and encouraged the good work done by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva. 41. The Director, Geneva Liaison Office, Division of Public Partnerships, United Nations Children’s Fund agreed that national legislatures had a key role to play in addressing the impacts of climate change on children’s rights, including the rights of girls and of other children disproportionately impacted by climate change. She emphasized that States had both national and transboundary responsibilities to protect children from the adverse effects of climate change and, in the event of climate harms, to ensure their access to remedy. Also under the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, businesses had a responsibility to ensure access to remedy. With regard to information on the impacts of climate change on children’s rights, the UNICEF representative highlighted the work of the Human Rights Council and called for disaggregated data collection which would help identify persons, including children, women and indigenous peoples, who may be disproportionately affected by the adverse impacts of climate change. Finally, she called for increased multisectoral cooperation, the development of child-friendly educational materials on climate change, which would facilitate children’s participation in climate processes, and the integration of human rights and children’s rights throughout relevant monitoring and review mechanisms, including those at the UNFCCC. 42. The Rapporteur of the Committee on the Rights of the Child also emphasized the importance of ensuring meaningful participation by children in climate action. This could be done by establishing standing consultative committees at the local and national levels that included children in government decision-making processes. The rapporteur called on States to take further steps to meet their human rights obligations to children, including through improved reporting to the Committee with regard to climate issues. Civil society inputs to the reviews of periodic State party reports to the Committee could also address climate issues by drawing attention to the adequacy of States’ individual contributions to international efforts to keep climate change to less than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to the human rights impacts of their climate actions. For its part, the Committee could help hold States accountable for any climate-related human rights concerns raised during the review process by issuing relevant recommendations and asking questions about the State’s efforts, for example to regulate businesses, and to monitor and respond to negative climate impacts. Similarly, States could use the universal periodic review process to ask each other questions and hold each other accountable for their climate and human rights commitments. Finally, in order to address the transboundary impacts of climate change and promote access to effective remedies, States could employ extraterritorial jurisdiction where appropriate. 43. Responding to a question about the role of social media in addressing climate change, the founder of the Green Hope Foundation stated that social media helped circumvent geographic boundaries, permitting the foundation to expand its activities globally. She also called for heightened awareness about the veracity of information posted on social networks. It was necessary to promote the responsible use of social media platforms to ensure the accurate transmission of information. She concluded the panel discussion by reiterating that children should be given a voice and be involved in the decision-making, agenda-setting and implementation for climate change action. 44. Closing the discussion, the moderator emphasized that collective efforts were needed to build capacity to protect the rights of children and future generations, and to ensure that all human rights were protected in the follow-up to and implementation of the Paris Agreement. While there were a number of challenges to mainstreaming children’s rights in climate action, the panel discussion had revealed many good practices. She hoped that the forthcoming summary on the panel discussion and analytical study on climate change and the rights of the child would make additional concrete recommendations for the protection and fulfilment of children’s rights through climate action. 10