A/HRC/RES/41/21 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 July 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-first session 24 June–12 July 2019 Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 12 July 2019 41/21. Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its commitment to leave no one behind, including, inter alia, its Goal 13 on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, Reaffirming the Addis Ababa Action Agenda as an integral part of the 2030 Agenda, Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, Recalling all its previous resolutions on human rights and climate change, Reaffirming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the objectives and principles thereof, and emphasizing that parties should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect human rights, Recalling that the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change1 acknowledges that climate change is a common concern of humankind and that parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations, and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity, Reaffirming the commitment to realize the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement adopted under the Convention, including, in the context of sustainable 1 See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex. GE.19-12539(E) 