A/HRC/RES/44/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fourth session
30 June–17 July 2020
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 16 July 2020
44/7.
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 previous Human Rights Council 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 changerelated actions, fully respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on 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
1
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
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