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disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender
equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity, and acknowledging the
need to respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on the right to food, the
rights of peasants, youth and people living in developing States and least developed countries
and in conditions of water scarcity, desertification, land degradation and drought, as well as
the empowerment of girls,
Reaffirming 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, including in the context of sustainable
development and efforts to eradicate poverty, end hunger and malnutrition and promote
livelihood resilience, 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,
Noting with serious concern the findings contained in the synthesis report of the Sixth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the findings from
the contribution of Working Group III to the Assessment Report, which set out that limiting
warming to around 1.5°C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at
the latest, and to be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030, and by 69 per cent by 2040, relative to
2019 levels, and achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050,
Stressing the urgency of enhancing ambition for climate action in the implementation
of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement
in relation to climate mitigation, adaptation and the provision of the means of
implementation, especially finance to developing countries,
Acknowledging that, as stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation
by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response,
in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective
capabilities and their social and economic conditions, and acknowledging also that article 2,
paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement states that the Agreement will be implemented to reflect
equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective
capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 77/276 of 29 March 2023, in which the
Assembly requested an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
obligations of States in respect of climate change, and Assembly resolution 76/300 of 28 July
2022, on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment,
Noting the importance of the work of the scientific community and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including its assessment reports and special
reports, in support of strengthening the global response to climate change, including
considering the human dimension, and Indigenous Peoples’, peasants’ and local
communities’ knowledge,
Acknowledging that, as stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, responses to climate change should be coordinated with social and
economic development in an integrated manner, with a view to avoiding adverse impacts on
the latter, taking into full account the legitimate priority needs of developing countries for
the achievement of sustained economic growth and the eradication of poverty, and
furthermore, recognizing the need to end hunger and malnutrition and to achieve livelihood
resilience in the face of loss and damage brought about by extreme weather and slow-onset
events,
Recognizing that poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty,
is one of the greatest global challenges, and that eradicating poverty and ending hunger and
malnutrition are critical to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and
climate change resilience, the promotion and protection of human rights, inter alia, the full
realization of the right to an adequate standard of living, and maintaining resilient livelihoods,
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