A/HRC/45/40 Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Affirmation of the right to development .......................................................................................... 3 III. The Sustainable Development Goals and the right to development ................................................. 6 IV. The contemporary human development setting................................................................................ 8 A. Extreme poverty....................................................................................................................... 8 B. Hunger, food security, health and nutrition ............................................................................. 8 C. Water and sanitation ................................................................................................................ 9 D. Energy...................................................................................................................................... 9 E. Income and wealth ................................................................................................................... 9 F. Generational, gender, urban-rural and other divides ................................................................ 10 G. Access, entitlement and opportunities ..................................................................................... 11 H. New inequalities: tertiary education and the digital divide ...................................................... 11 I. Global warming, climate change and biodiversity ................................................................... 12 J. Current socioeconomic situation.............................................................................................. 12 Moving forward on the right to development................................................................................... 13 A. Support for a legally binding instrument ................................................................................. 14 B. Opposition to a legally binding instrument .............................................................................. 14 C. Progress on a legally binding instrument ................................................................................. 15 VI. Added value of a legally binding instrument on the right to development ....................................... 16 VII. Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................... 19 V. 2