A/HRC/RES/38/4
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-eighth session
18 June–6 July 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on
5 July 2018
38/4.
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
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including, inter alia, its
Goal 13 on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, and Goal 5 on
achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls,
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 as enunciated in the outcome of the
sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention,1
Reaffirming also 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, 2 including, in the context of sustainable
development and efforts to eradicate poverty, in order to achieve the ultimate objective of
the Convention,
Stressing the importance of holding the increase in the global average temperature to
well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and of pursuing efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, while recognizing that this would
significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change,
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2
FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, decision 1/CP.16.
See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.2, decision 1/CP.21, annex.
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