A/HRC/RES/18/22 support national efforts for the realization of human rights implicated by climate changerelated impacts, Affirming that human rights obligations, standards and principles have the potential to inform and strengthen international and national policymaking in the area of climate change, promoting policy coherence, legitimacy and sustainable outcomes, 1. Reiterates its concern that climate change poses an immediate and farreaching threat to people and communities around the world and has adverse implications for the full enjoyment of human rights; 2. Rights: Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human (a) To convene, prior to the nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council, a seminar on addressing the adverse impacts of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights, with a view to following up on the call for respecting human rights in all climate change-related actions and policies, and forging stronger interface and cooperation between the human rights and climate change communities; (b) To invite States and other relevant stakeholders, including academic experts, civil society organizations and representatives of those segments of the population most vulnerable to climate change, to participate actively in the seminar; (c) To invite the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme to help organize the seminar, informed by the best available science, including the assessment reports and special reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; 3. Decides that the seminar will build on the previous work of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, such as the Social Forum and relevant special procedures, while taking into account the outcome of the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Cancun, in 2010, and any pertinent issues arising from the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, to be held in Durban, in 2011; 4. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner: (a) To submit to the Human Rights Council, at its twentieth session, a summary report on the above-mentioned seminar, including any recommendations stemming therefrom, for consideration of further follow-up action; (b) To make available to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at its eighteenth session, the summary report of the seminar; 5. Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide all the human and technical assistance necessary for the effective and timely realization of the above-mentioned seminar and summary report; 6. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 37th meeting 30 September 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 3