A/HRC/31/52 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Increasing attention to the relationship between climate change and human rights ......................... 3 III. Effects of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights .......................................................... 7 IV. Human rights obligations relating to climate change ....................................................................... 9 A. General considerations ............................................................................................................. 9 B. Procedural obligations ............................................................................................................. 13 C. Substantive obligations ............................................................................................................ 16 D. Obligations in relation to vulnerable groups ............................................................................ 19 Conclusions and recommendations .................................................................................................. 20 V. 2