A/HRC/RES/32/33 countries, to ensure the highest possible mitigation efforts to minimize the adverse impact of climate change on present and future generations, Noting the importance of facilitating meaningful interaction between the human rights and climate change communities at both the national and international levels in order to build capacity to deliver responses to climate change that respect and promote human rights, taking into account the Geneva Pledge for Human Rights in Climate Action, Noting also the establishment and the advocacy of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, Noting further the establishment and work of regional and subregional initiatives on climate change, including the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change and the International Solar Alliance, 1. Expresses concern that climate change has contributed to the increase of both sudden-onset natural disasters and slow-onset events, and that these events have adverse effects on the full enjoyment of all human rights; 2. Emphasizes the urgent importance of continuing to address, as they relate to States’‎ human‎ rights‎ obligations,‎ the‎ adverse‎ consequences‎ of‎ climate‎ change‎ for‎ all,‎ particularly in developing countries and the people whose situation is most vulnerable to climate change, especially children in a situation of extreme poverty, and deteriorating livelihood conditions; 3. Calls upon States to continue and enhance international cooperation and assistance for adaptation measures to help developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and persons in vulnerable situations, including children most at risk; 4. Decides to incorporate into its programme of work for the thirty-fourth session, on the basis of the different elements contained in the present resolution, a panel discussion‎on‎the‎adverse‎impact‎of‎climate‎change‎on‎States’‎efforts‎to‎‎realize‎the‎rights‎ of the child and related policies, lessons learned and good practices; 5. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in consultation with and taking into account the views of States, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council,‎the‎United‎Nations‎Children’s‎Fund,‎the‎United‎ Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, and other relevant international organizations and intergovernmental bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and other stakeholders, to conduct, from within existing resources, a detailed analytical study on the relationship between climate change and the full and effective enjoyment of the rights of the child, to be submitted to the Council prior to its thirty-fifth session and to be further informed by the panel discussion mandated in paragraph 4 above; 6. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit to the Human Rights Council, at its session following the panel discussion, a summary report, including any recommendations stemming therefrom, for consideration of further follow-up action; 7. Invites special procedure mandate holders, within their respective mandates, and other relevant stakeholders, including academic experts and civil society organizations, to contribute actively to the panel discussion; 8. Encourages relevant special procedure mandate holders to continue to consider the issue of climate change and human rights, including the adverse impact of climate change on the‎enjoyment‎of‎children’s‎rights,‎within‎their‎respective‎mandates; 4

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