A/HRC/RES/55/2 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 4 April 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 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 3 April 2024 55/2. Mandate of Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and recalling relevant international human rights treaties and other relevant regional human rights instruments, and recalling States’ obligations and commitments under multilateral environmental instruments and agreements, Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, Reaffirming further all Human Rights Council resolutions on human rights and the environment, the most recent of which are resolutions 46/7 of 23 March 2021, on human rights and the environment, and 52/23 of 4 April 2023, on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, Welcoming the adoption of Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 on 8 October 2021 and General Assembly resolution 76/300 on 28 July 2022, recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Recalling all of the reports of the Special Rapporteur (formerly the Independent Expert) on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment,1 Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, 1 A/73/188, A/74/161, A/75/161, A/76/179, A/77/284, A/HRC/22/43, A/HRC/25/53, A/HRC/28/61, A/HRC/31/52, A/HRC/31/53, A/HRC/34/49, A/HRC/37/58, A/HRC/37/59, A/HRC/40/55, A/HRC/43/53, A/HRC/43/54, A/HRC/46/28, A/HRC/49/53, A/HRC/52/33, A/HRC/52/44 and A/HRC/55/43. GE.24-06161 (E)