A/HRC/RES/57/28 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 11 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 October 2024 57/28. Biodiversity and human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments, and reaffirming the importance of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Reaffirming the importance of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and its principles in addressing biodiversity loss and environmental degradation and their adverse impact on the enjoyment of human rights by all, Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the pledge contained therein to leave no one behind, including, inter alia, Sustainable Goals 14, on conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources, and 15, on halting biodiversity loss, Recalling also the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, including section C thereof, which calls, inter alia, for the implementation of the Framework, including its vision, mission, goals and targets, to be consistent with a human rights-based approach and Conference of the Parties decisions 15/5, on the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 15/6, on mechanisms for planning, monitoring, reporting and review, 15/7, on resource mobilization, and 15/8, on capacitybuilding and development and technical and scientific cooperation, Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 of 8 October 2021 and General Assembly resolution 76/300 of 28 July 2022 on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Recalling the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in which it is recognized that respect for Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, and recognizing that the failure to protect biodiversity and environmental degradation have adverse human rights consequences, as well as a negative impact on the preservation of traditional knowledge and the cultural heritage, expressions, identities and quality of life of Indigenous Peoples, as well as other biodiversity-dependent communities, GE.24-18644 (E)