A/HRC/35/13 3. Guarantee children access to remedies 62. States and other responsible actors should take measures to ensure that children have access to effective remedies when they suffer harm from climate action and inaction. Such measures could include: (a) Integrating the right to a healthy environment and the rights of future generations in national constitutions and legislation in order to promote the justiciability of those rights and strengthen accountability systems; (b) Ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, which established a complaints procedure for violations of children’s rights; (c) Employing extraterritorial jurisdiction and taking other measures, as appropriate, to ensure responsible conduct by businesses not only in emissions reductions but also in remedying past harm; (d) Developing a loss and damage system that ensures effective remedies for climate-related human rights harm, particularly that experienced by children; (e) Ensuring that climate mitigation and adaptation projects provide access to effective redress mechanisms for human rights harm. 4. Better understand the impacts of climate change on children 63. In order to better protect children from the impacts of climate change, all actors should support improved understanding of the relationship between climate change and children’s rights. This could be promoted through measures such as: (a) Disaggregated data collection; (b) Impact assessments with respect to children’s rights and future generations; (c) Enhanced intersectoral cooperation, as called for in the Geneva Pledge for Human Rights in Climate Action; (d) Establishment of standing consultative committees that include children’s perspectives; (e) Improved reporting on children’s rights and climate change to relevant United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and human rights mechanisms. 64. In this regard, civil society actors and participants at the 2010 Social Forum have called for the appointment of a United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and climate change.82 5. Mobilize adequate resources for child rights-based climate action 65. States, keeping in mind their human rights obligations and their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, should take measures to mobilize adequate resources for effective climate action that does not harm but rather benefits children. States should ensure transparent, participatory and informed decision-making in the allocation of resources, including by conducting impact assessments with respect to children’s rights and future generations. Further, measures should be taken to improve international cooperation and build capacity for climate action in developing countries through the transfer of technology and the sharing of technical expertise. Mitigation must be a top priority, as it is the key to minimizing the negative impacts of climate change. In these efforts, businesses also have human rights responsibilities, which must not be neglected. 66. With regard to climate adaptation, resources should be directed towards efforts to promote non-discriminatory access to basic necessities and services for children in 82 A/HRC/16/62. 17