A/HRC/RES/37/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 March 2018
37/8.
Human rights and the environment
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all its resolutions on human rights and the environment, the most recent
of which is resolution 34/20 of 24 March 2017, and relevant resolutions of the General
Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of Human Rights Council, and
5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of 18
June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also 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,
Recalling further the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, and its outcome document
entitled “The future we want”,1 which reaffirmed the principles of the Rio Declaration on
Environment and Development,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Recalling the outcomes of the third session of the United Nations Environment
Assembly, and looking forward to the fourth session, to be held in Nairobi from 11 to 15
March 2019,
Recalling also the Paris Agreement, adopted under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, in which the parties acknowledged in the preamble that
they should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider
their respective obligations with regard to human rights, the right to health, the rights of
indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and
people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the
empowerment of women and intergenerational equity,
1
General Assembly resolution 66/288, annex.
GE.18-05517(E)