A/HRC/16/62 B. Recommendations 60. The 2010 Social Forum recommends that: (a) The Human Rights Council establish a new mechanism, which could take the form of a special rapporteur or independent expert, dedicated to human rights and climate change. The mandate of this mechanism should include addressing the human rights aspects of climate change and elaborating a study on the responsibilities of States, and other actors, in the area of climate change adaptation, mitigation, technology transfer, technical cooperation and funding, vis-à-vis the urgent need for adaptation and commitments with sustainable development, bearing in mind the negative impacts of climate change on different human rights and its amplification in the case of vulnerable groups, including the reality of persons displaced as a result of climate change. It could lead to a non-binding instrument of guiding principles for human rights and climate change; (b) The Human Rights Council continue holding an annual discussion with the view to tracking the rapidly evolving impacts of climate change on human rights; (c) The sixteenth Conference of the Parties in Cancun be informed of the deliberations of the 2010 Social Forum with the view to: ensuring that the agreed outcome texts are consistent with the obligations contained in international human rights instruments; integrating social dimension, a gender perspective and the human rights-based approach in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations; respecting intergenerational equity, and addressing extraterritorial State obligations; ensuring that safeguards and measures are put in place to avoid side effects, such as trade protectionism; and ensuring that specific attention is paid to the situation of mountainous countries, small island States and other countries which are particularly exposed to the impact of climate change; (d) Climate change be taken into account in the elaboration of the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, and also in other human rights reports, such as those on water, food, health, housing or development. (e) Governments involve local communities and organizations, including meaningful participation of vulnerable groups, in developing objectives, policies and strategies for the upcoming Cancun and following negotiations, as well as for ensuring the success of longer-term strategies. (f) The situation of persons displaced as a result of climate change be addressed, and that national Governments in disaster-prone countries invest in disaster risk reduction planning, mechanisms and procedures, as well as in other adaptation measures in the face of the already present negative impacts of climate change, and that the members of the international community increase their efforts in responding to international disasters and in investing in preparedness, adaptation and mitigation through sustainable development options, which may imply the transfer of best available technologies. The gaps in the legal protection of those displaced across borders should be addressed, including through international law related to refugees. (g) REDD and REDD+ programmes adopt a more rights-based approach, create legal awareness programmes along with other support programmes for indigenous peoples that may be affected by REDD programmes, and improve participatory and access-to-justice provisions. These programmes on avoiding deforestation need to be complemented with broader sustainable development programmes all over the world; 18