A/HRC/43/30 the national policy framework for implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (f) Adopt evidence-based measures and good practices, mobilize domestic and international resources and increase technical assistance in line with international human rights laws, norms and standards and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ensure that all children, including those most at risk, can exercise their human rights on an equal basis with others; (g) Strengthen monitoring of the impacts of environmental harm and exposure to toxics and pollution on children, conduct impact assessments, collect disaggregated data, particularly concerning children most at risk, and establish monitoring and investigative mechanisms; (h) Collect information on the sources and effects of environmental damage and exposure to toxic substances on children and make it publicly available and accessible, including in age-appropriate language and formats; (i) Provide accessible, age-appropriate environmental education in school curricula aimed at increasing children’s knowledge and capacity to respond to environmental challenges; (j) Facilitate children’s meaningful participation in environmental and human rights decision-making processes and protect them from reprisals for their participation or otherwise expressing their views on environmental matters; (k) Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure; (l) Ensure that children have access to justice and to effective and timely remedies for toxics exposure and environmental degradation and that the mechanisms for ensuring such access are age-appropriate and take into consideration children’s needs; (m) Prioritize preventive and precautionary measures, including remediation of contaminated sites, regulation of production and sale of products, access to necessary medical and psychological care, and adequate compensation; (n) Strengthen regulation and ensure enforcement of human rights and environmental harm in the context of business activities, including through the introduction of specific legislation; (o) Require businesses to undertake child rights due diligence, ensure that children are not exposed to toxics and environmental degradation in the context of business activities, both domestically and extraterritorially, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s general comment No. 16, and take appropriate steps to ensure, through judicial, administrative, legislative or other appropriate means, that when abuses occur within their territory and/or jurisdiction those affected have access to effective remedy; (p) Eliminate work exposing children to toxic substances and ensure that women and girls of reproductive age are guaranteed protection from occupational exposure to toxics and access to alternative preventive measures; (q) Increase and strengthen intersectoral cooperation and strengthen regulatory agencies and ministries responsible for the oversight of standards relevant to children’s rights affected by exposure to toxics and environmental degradation, including health, consumer protection, education, environment, food and labour, to ensure they adopt a child-rights approach. 108. Businesses should: (a) Identify, prevent and mitigate exposure by children to toxicants and environmental degradation through their activities, products or business relationships, including global supply chains and other international relationships; 18