A/HRC/29/19 agriculture and forestry. Titling of their lands and territories may support preservation of forests and improved carbon storage. A study by the World Resources Institute found that strengthening indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights to their forests helped Governments to meet climate goals, safeguard forests and protect livelihoods. Indigenous climate observations and community-based monitoring could help to reduce monitoring costs and enhance early warning systems. 30. Ms. Tauli-Corpuz said the outcome of the 2015 Paris Conference of the Parties must ensure that respecting all human rights for all is integral to all decisions and actions for mitigation and adaptation. The Conference should request inputs and advice from OHCHR and human rights mechanisms on operationalizing human rights protections in climate policy and any new agreement should include language on indigenous peoples’ rights. She said that participation was critical and indigenous peoples must have a voice and vote in climate-related decisions. Climate funds must include seats for indigenous peoples as observers. More States should sign the Geneva Pledge and act to protect the rights of those most vulnerable to climate change. 31. Mr. Mwenda highlighted the need to ensure that human rights were protected in climate policymaking affecting Africa. He said there was a need for a broad understanding of human rights that emphasized the right to development, especially achieving equitable or even equal development between States. In addition to having the obligation to protect human rights within their borders, States and the international community had broader responsibilities to promote the realization of all human rights for all. States must act collectively, including through the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 32. Mr. Mwenda advocated for a paradigm shift that took into account concepts such as indigenous rights and the rights of Mother Earth. He said these were embedded in the cooperative values of the peoples of Africa and were essential for realizing the right to food in Africa. Nearly all States had accepted the extraterritorial reach of their legal obligations in relation to human rights. Therefore, discussions on climate change and human rights should focus on how best States could fulfil their responsibility. He called for the appointment of a special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, as recommended by the 2010 Social Forum. In the countdown to the 2015 Paris Conference of the Parties, establishing such a mandate would be timely and effective. 33. He recalled the statement of the Chair of the Group of 77 and China during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, Lumumba Diaping, according to which 100 million sub-Saharan Africans would die owing to the unaddressed consequences of climate change in the twenty-first century. He said that, in Kenya, the Government had just issued a famine alert and was shipping emergency supplies to farming communities facing starvation owing to prolonged climate-related drought. Consequently, funds earmarked for infrastructure projects were being diverted. This was a vicious cycle that was an everyday reality for many in Africa. Mr. Mwenda concluded that those who had caused the problem could not be allowed to abdicate responsibility. B. Interactive discussion 34. During the plenary discussion, representatives of the following States took the floor: Algeria (on behalf of the Group of African States), Bangladesh (on behalf of Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of]), Chile, Ecuador (on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, France, Ghana, the Holy See, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Maldives, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, 8