A/HRC/RES/32/33
countries, to ensure the highest possible mitigation efforts to minimize the adverse impact
of climate change on present and future generations,
Noting the importance of facilitating meaningful interaction between the human
rights and climate change communities at both the national and international levels in order
to build capacity to deliver responses to climate change that respect and promote human
rights, taking into account the Geneva Pledge for Human Rights in Climate Action,
Noting also the establishment and the advocacy of the Climate Vulnerable Forum,
Noting further the establishment and work of regional and subregional initiatives on
climate change, including the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on
Climate Change and the International Solar Alliance,
1.
Expresses concern that climate change has contributed to the increase of both
sudden-onset natural disasters and slow-onset events, and that these events have adverse
effects on the full enjoyment of all human rights;
2.
Emphasizes the urgent importance of continuing to address, as they relate to
States’ human rights obligations, the adverse consequences of climate change for all,
particularly in developing countries and the people whose situation is most vulnerable to
climate change, especially children in a situation of extreme poverty, and deteriorating
livelihood conditions;
3.
Calls upon States to continue and enhance international cooperation and
assistance for adaptation measures to help developing countries, especially those that are
particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and persons in vulnerable
situations, including children most at risk;
4.
Decides to incorporate into its programme of work for the thirty-fourth
session, on the basis of the different elements contained in the present resolution, a panel
discussionontheadverseimpactofclimatechangeonStates’effortstorealizetherights
of the child and related policies, lessons learned and good practices;
5.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, in consultation with and taking into account the views of States, the special
procedures of the Human Rights Council,theUnitedNationsChildren’sFund,theUnited
Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the World
Meteorological Organization, and other relevant international organizations and
intergovernmental bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and
the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and other
stakeholders, to conduct, from within existing resources, a detailed analytical study on the
relationship between climate change and the full and effective enjoyment of the rights of
the child, to be submitted to the Council prior to its thirty-fifth session and to be further
informed by the panel discussion mandated in paragraph 4 above;
6.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit to the Human
Rights Council, at its session following the panel discussion, a summary report, including
any recommendations stemming therefrom, for consideration of further follow-up action;
7.
Invites special procedure mandate holders, within their respective mandates,
and other relevant stakeholders, including academic experts and civil society organizations,
to contribute actively to the panel discussion;
8.
Encourages relevant special procedure mandate holders to continue to
consider the issue of climate change and human rights, including the adverse impact of
climate change on theenjoymentofchildren’srights,withintheirrespectivemandates;
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