A/HRC/RES/31/8 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 April 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-first session Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2016 31/8. Human rights and the environment The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming all its resolutions on human rights and the environment, the latest of which is resolution 28/11 of 26 March 2015, and relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centered set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business, and aiming to contribute to the full implementation of that Agenda by 2030, and to the high-level political forum on sustainable development as the central United Nations platform for follow-up and review thereof, Recalling also the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, and its outcome document “The future we want”, which reaffirmed the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including principle 7, Recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development, that the right to development must be fulfilled in order to meet the development and environmental needs of present and future generations equitably, and that the human person is the central subject of development and should be an active participant in and the beneficiary of the right to development, Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, GE.16-06645(E) 