A/HRC/41/39 mobilization. Without it, the natural complacency of governmental elites and the vested interests of financial elites will lead them to continue sleep-walking towards catastrophe. Building coalitions 75. Human rights actors need a more robust, detailed and coordinated interdisciplinary approach that brings together law, climate science, labour rights and economics to tackle issues around emissions, mitigation, social protection and just transition head-on, and provide a path forward that States can follow. Major human rights actors must tackle questions about the emissions, resource allocation and energy and economic policy that States are grappling with and where there is a real need for detailed, actionable recommendations. Human rights treaty bodies and other mechanisms have a role to play in setting standards for these decisions that are informed by human rights law. Failing to do so while sticking to broad truisms that are difficult to act on will leave the human rights community sidelined on critical climate change decisions. 76. There are positive developments in the coordination between environmental advocates and human rights actors, including by bringing climate concerns into the United Nations treaty body system and the use of human rights in climate litigation. There is a real opportunity to leverage the technical expertise of environmental and climate scientists to bring detail and precision into human rights recommendations and legal standards, which have so far largely lacked the specificity that would facilitate meaningful government incorporation. Human rights-compliant solutions 77. The Paris Agreement is the first climate change agreement to explicitly recognize the relevance of human rights. In it, States parties are called upon to respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights when taking action to address climate change. However, the Katowice “rulebook”, developed to guide implementation of the Agreement, omitted any reference to human rights. 126 Despite growing attention from the human rights community, States are giving only marginal attention to human rights in the conversation on climate change. 78. The human rights community could play an important role in clarifying the legal requirements around climate action, facilitating the participation of affected communities, ensuring that strategies employed for attaining targets and adapting to climate change comply with human rights law and advocating for their implementation and enforcement through both litigation and traditional human rights advocacy. 79. It is crucial that climate action is pursued in a way that respects human rights, protects people in poverty from negative impacts and prevents more people from falling into poverty. That would include ensuring that vulnerable populations have access to protective infrastructure, technical and financial support, relocation options, training and employment support, land tenure, and access to food, water and sanitation and health care. Women face particular challenges in the face of climate change (see A/HRC/41/26). 80. Failing to pursue a human rights-focused climate response could have regressive impacts. Climate action also needs to be structured to correct for current disparities, not reinforce them. People in poverty are already left out of decisions that affect them and political inequality means that they risk being marginalized within the climate response. Bringing the United Nations human rights mechanisms to life 81. Human rights treaty bodies and others should weigh in on questions that are already hotly contested in courthouses and parliaments, including how human rights obligations can be used to define the legal duties of States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions individually and at a global level, what the minimum actions are that States must take in line with the 126 See Centre for International Environmental Law, “Katowice COP24 outcome incompatible with Paris Agreement. Ambition, equity, and human rights left behind in Poland climate talks”, 25 December 2018. 17