A/HRC/RES/53/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-third session
19 June–14 July 2023
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 12 July
2023
53/6.
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, the International Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 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
Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change,1 and the objectives and principles thereof, and emphasizing that parties should, in
all climate change-related actions, fully respect, promote and consider their respective
obligations on human rights,
Recalling that the Paris Agreement 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 with regard to human rights,
including the right to food, the right to health, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local
communities, peasants, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and persons in
vulnerable situations, including people living in small island developing States and least
1
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
GE.23-14160(E)