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(f)
To explore ways to incorporate information on human rights and the
environment, including the marine environment, in school curricula, in order to teach current
and future generations to act as agents of change, including by taking into account the
traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples;
(g)
To seek to ensure that projects supported by environmental finance
mechanisms respect all human rights;
(h)
To collect disaggregated data on the effects of environmental harm, including
the loss of biodiversity and the decline of ecosystem services, on persons in vulnerable
situations;
(i)
To promote and accelerate human rights-based environmental action that is
gender-responsive and includes gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
and takes into consideration the vulnerability of ecosystems and the needs of persons and
communities in vulnerable situations;
(j)
To continue to share good practices in fulfilling human rights obligations
relating to the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment through the good
practices database maintained by the Special Rapporteur;
(k)
To facilitate expert exchange of knowledge and ideas, building synergies
between the protection of human rights and the protection of the environment, and to promote
coherence among different policy areas, bearing in mind an integrated and multisectoral
approach and considering that efforts to protect the environment must fully respect other
human rights obligations, including those relating to gender equality;
(l)
To strengthen their efforts to protect biodiversity, including by updating and
implementing their national biodiversity strategies and action plans, thereby contributing to
the achievement of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework under the
Convention on Biological Diversity;
(m) To build capacity within the judicial sector to understand the relationship
between human rights and the environment;
(n)
To foster a responsible private business sector and to encourage corporate
sustainability reporting while respecting the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights and environmental standards, in accordance with relevant international agreements;
(o)
To ratify the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas
beyond National Jurisdiction;
7.
Recognizes the important role played by individuals and civil society
organizations, including human rights defenders and environmental human right defenders,
in the promotion and protection of human rights as they relate to the enjoyment of the human
right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, including biodiversity and ecosystems;
8.
Also recognizes the important role of national human rights institutions to
support and promote the enjoyment of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable
environment;
9.
Encourages relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other
international organizations, treaty bodies, academia and civil society organizations to
promote the implementation of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable
environment;
10.
Stresses the need for enhanced cooperation among States, the United Nations
Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office of the High Commissioner, the
World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the International
Labour Organization and other relevant international and regional organizations, agencies,
conventions and programmes, in accordance with their respective mandates, including by
regularly exchanging knowledge and ideas and building synergies for the respect, promotion
and protection of the human right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment, bearing in
mind an integrated and multisectoral approach;
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