A/HRC/43/53/Add.1 (i) Amend the Environment Management Act to include protecting the right to a clean and healthy environment as the overarching purpose of the law; (ii) Proceed with enacting and implementing a national climate change act to institutionalize and oversee the implementation of the country’s international and domestic climate commitments and actions; (iii) Finalize and implement national legislation and policies on sustainable safe water supplies and sanitation; (e) Allocate more financial and human resources to all departments and agencies with environmental responsibilities, including the Department of Environment, the Land Transport Authority, the Water Authority of Fiji (to upgrade drinking water and wastewater infrastructure) and the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji (to create a marine environmental enforcement unit), as well as municipal governments; (f) Invest in public education and capacity-building relating to the right to a clean and healthy environment in government agencies, the legal profession and the judiciary; (g) Apply extended producer responsibility in the context of solid waste management so that producers of paper, plastic, packaging and other materials become responsible for financing and operating an effective recycling programme; (h) Enhance the public’s ability to participate meaningfully in environmental decision-making by creating an online registry that would make environmental information easy to access, including on air and water quality, laws, regulations, policies, permit applications and decisions, pollution data and enforcement actions taken; (i) Expedite actions to formally designate additional protected areas, both terrestrial and marine, in line with the Aichi Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity; (j) Continue to respect and protect indigenous rights in line with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; (k) Take further steps to ensure a safe and enabling environment for environmental activists and other human rights defenders, as recommended in the universal periodic review of Fiji in 2014; (l) Implement the recommendations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child regarding the need to protect children’s rights from environmental hazards and include children’s voices in climate policy and actions. 19

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