A/HRC/38/21 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 April 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session 18 June–6 July 2018 Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Protection and promotion of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Addressing human rights protection gaps in the context of migration and displacement of persons across international borders resulting from the adverse effects of climate change and supporting the adaptation and mitigation plans of developing countries to bridge the protection gaps Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 35/20, in which the Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to undertake research on human rights protection gaps in the context of cross-border movement resulting from the adverse effects of climate change and the necessary means of implementation for climate change adaptation and mitigation to bridge them, and to submit a report on that research to the Council at its thirty-eighth session. It concludes with several concrete recommendations for addressing those issues. GE.18-06410(E) 