A/HRC/29/19 Framework Convention on Climate Change and for the Council to hold a special session on climate change. V. Closing session 77. In closing, Ms. Robinson offered brief conclusions and recommendations drawn from the full day of discussions. Depicting climate change as the greatest human rights challenge of the twenty-first century, she noted that panellists and participants had left no doubt as to the terrible reality of its impacts. The international human rights system was focused on the role and accountability of States in realizing the human rights of their people. However, the impacts of climate change exceeded the capacity of many States to protect their people. Members of the Human Rights Council must therefore assume responsibility for safeguarding those whose rights were undermined and destroyed by those impacts. 78. She said that climate justice necessitated urgent action and solidarity. It required States to look beyond their responsibility to their own people and accept responsibility for all those who are particularly vulnerable to climate change, including future generations. Developing countries were making extraordinary efforts to address climate change and increase their resilience. However, they needed the support of the international community to protect the rights of their people and gain equitable access to sustainable development. 79. Ms. Robinson noted that participants had called for a human rights dimension to be included in the outcome of the 2015 Paris Conference of the Parties; improved reporting on human rights and climate change to the Human Rights Council and to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; the Council to hold a special session on human rights and climate change; the identification and sharing of good practices in human rights informing climate action; the examination of climate change by all special procedures mandate holders, including recommendations to the Council; and the creation of a legal instrument to protect the rights of climate displaced people among other recommendations. 80. She observed that climate change, sustainable development and human rights were interlinked. Therefore, efforts to move towards a more equitable world must address them jointly. Gender equality, access to information and the rights to participation, education, water, food and development should also inform more effective climate policies. All countries should be able to participate in low-carbon, climate-resilient development, and those most responsible for climate change should rapidly reduce their emissions and honour their commitments to provide financial, technological and capacity-building support. The Human Rights Council must act now to ensure people-centred, rights-based action on climate change as both a priority for the Paris Conference of the Parties and a longer-term commitment. Recalling the words of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, she concluded with a call for humanity to reach a higher moral ground and take immediate action on climate change. 17