A/HRC/RES/32/33
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/33.
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, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1
including, inter alia, its Goal 13, which calls for urgent action to combat climate change and
its impact,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and
interrelated,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on human rights and climate change,
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, 2
Reaffirming also the commitment to enable the full, effective and sustained
implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
including, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty,
through long-term cooperative action, in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the
Convention,
Acknowledging that, as stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible
cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, dec.1/CP.16.
GE.16-12332(E)
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