A/HRC/38/21 (f) Address the impacts of climate change on the enjoyment of all human rights through effective, scaled-up adaptation measures that benefit the most vulnerable, facilitate safe and voluntary movement, and minimize forced movement, including through strengthened social protection systems; (g) Mobilize all necessary means of implementation for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation measures to address human rights protection gaps for persons adversely affected by climate change; (h) Facilitate the integration of climate change-related migrants in host communities, the regularization of their legal status and their access to labour markets; (i) Ensure the meaningful, effective and informed participation of all persons, and especially women, in decision-making processes related to climate change and human mobility. For persons and communities displaced from their traditional livelihoods and territories due to climate change, empower them to make decisions about their futures and, to the greatest extent possible, ensure their continued access to traditional lands, resources and livelihoods; (j) Adequately inform people about the existing and potential adverse effects of climate change to promote informed decision-making, support their right to plan and manage their own movement and facilitate their access to justice; (k) Address data gaps through collection of disaggregated data related to the drivers of human movement; human rights impact assessments of climate change and climate actions; and community mobilization to measure the adverse effects of climate change and generate knowledge; (l) Strengthen the role of regional bodies, conventions and economic communities in preventing, minimizing and addressing climate change-related human mobility. For example, in the absence of an international obligation to admit people affected by climate change, promote regional protection frameworks; (m) Enhanced monitoring, review and technical support by human rights mechanisms on the issue of climate change-related cross-border movement, including by engaging the Human Rights Council, its special procedures mechanisms and the human rights treaty bodies; (n) Commit to integrating human rights and human mobility, as well as climate change or the adverse effects of climate change, in relevant national reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular the universal periodic review; and ensure that the Task Force on Displacement of the Warsaw International Mechanism employs a rights-based approach to human mobility; (o) Operationalize the Global Migration Group’s Principles and practical guidance on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations. 17

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