A/HRC/RES/58/16 (f) To provide for effective remedies for human rights violations and abuses, including those relating to the enjoyment of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, in accordance with their international obligations; (g) To establish, maintain and strengthen effective legal and institutional frameworks to regulate the activities of public and private actors in order to prevent, reduce and remedy harm to biodiversity and ecosystems, taking into account human rights obligations and commitments relating to the enjoyment of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment; (h) To implement, in all their activities, the precautionary principle or precautionary approach, as appropriate, for the effective protection of marine and coastal ecosystems; (i) To take into account human rights obligations and commitments relating to the enjoyment of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the implementation of and follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 14, on life below water, and Goal 6, on clean water and sanitation, bearing in mind the integrated and multisectoral nature of the latter; (j) To respect and promote the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, in accordance with their free, prior and informed consent, as well as the traditional knowledge of local communities and local knowledge systems in ocean governance; (k) To increase funding and support for, and collaboration with, grass-roots women’s organizations working on environmental and human rights issues, and for the implementation of gender action plans under multilateral environmental agreements; (l) To mobilize and allocate adequate, predictable and sustainable funding for technical assistance and capacity-building initiatives in supporting legal and policy development, institutional strengthening, knowledge-sharing and multi-stakeholder cooperation to effectively implement the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment; 6. Encourages States: (a) To adopt ecosystem-based integrated, intersecting and holistic national and local policies and an effective legal framework that acknowledges the need to protect and restore the ocean for the enjoyment of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment; (b) To address compliance with human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the framework of human rights mechanisms, including the universal periodic review, and the submission of State party reports to relevant United Nations human rights treaty bodies; (c) To build capacities for efforts to protect the environment in order to fulfil their human rights obligations and commitments, and to enhance cooperation with other States, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the rest of the United Nations system and other relevant international and regional organizations, agencies, convention secretariats and programmes, and relevant non-State stakeholders, including civil society, national human rights institutions and business, on the further development and implementation of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, in accordance with their respective mandates; (d) To cooperate in formulating and developing rules, standards, recommended practices and procedures based on human rights and the best available scientific knowledge, to counter marine pollution, integrating the traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, small-scale fisherfolk and local communities; (e) To cooperate with other States to advance the protection, conservation and remediation of the ocean and coastal areas, including through the implementation of international law and the incorporation of international human rights law obligations, standards and guidelines for ocean management; 6