A/HRC/RES/18/22 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 October 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Eighteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 18/22 Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Bearing in mind that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, Recalling its resolutions 7/23 of 28 March 2008 and 10/4 of 25 March 2009, on human rights and climate change, and 16/11 of 24 March 2011, on human rights and the environment, Reaffirming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the objectives and principles thereof, and emphasizing that parties should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect human rights as enunciated in the outcome of the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention,1 Reaffirming also the commitment to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012, in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention, Reaffirming further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg * 1 GE.11- 16748 The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I. FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, dec. 1/CP.16.