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consultation on measures at the domestic and international levels on effective and sustainable
climate action that respects, promotes and protects human rights;
(g)
To facilitate and contribute to the exchange of technical assistance, capacitybuilding and international cooperation in support of national efforts, actions and measures to
address the adverse impact of climate change on the enjoyment of human rights, in
collaboration with Governments, international organizations, civil society, the technical and
academic communities, the private sector and all relevant stakeholders, including by using
new and emerging digital technologies;
(h)
To work in close coordination, while avoiding duplication of efforts, with the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, other special procedures
and other human rights mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies and other
relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including those related to climate
change and the environment;
(i)
To conduct country visits and to respond promptly to invitations from States;
(j)
To participate in, and contribute to, a human rights perspective to relevant
international conferences and events with the aim of promoting a systematic and coherent
approach to issues pertaining to the mandate;
(k)
To integrate a gender-responsive, age-sensitive, disability inclusive and socialinclusion perspective throughout the work of the mandate;
(l)
To work closely with States and relevant stakeholders, including business
enterprises, both transnational and others, to adopt a human rights perspective in accordance
with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to mitigate potential adverse
effects of their activities, including investment projects, on human rights in the context of
climate change;
(m) To closely coordinate with the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights
obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment,
the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound
management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes and the Special Rapporteur on
the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and to consider every possibility to
coordinate his or her work with these mandate holders in the most effective way, including
through joint undertakings;
(n)
To report annually to the Human Rights Council, starting from its fiftieth
session, and to the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session;
3.
Calls upon all States and all stakeholders to cooperate fully with the Special
Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change
in the performance of the mandate, including by providing all necessary information
requested in the Special Rapporteur’s communications, to react promptly to the Special
Rapporteur’s urgent appeals, to give serious consideration to responding favourably to the
Special Rapporteur’s requests for country visits and to consider implementing the
recommendations in reports submitted under the mandate;
4.
Encourages all relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies,
funds and programmes, human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions,
national independent monitoring frameworks, civil society, the private sector, donors and
development agencies to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur to enable the mandate
holder to fulfil the mandate;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the human, technical and
financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate;
6.
Requests the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council to conduct a
study and to prepare a report, in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur, on the impact
of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights, and to submit
the report to the Council at its fifty-fourth session;
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