A/HRC/RES/57/31 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 October 2024 57/31. Mandate of Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming that States have the obligation and the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil human rights and fundamental freedoms, in accordance with the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and all relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council on human rights and climate change, including Council resolution 48/14 of 8 October 2021, Bearing in mind the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement adopted under the Convention, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the Malé Declaration on the Human Dimension of Global Climate Change, the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on the Right to Development and the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, and all relevant international and regional instruments addressing the adverse impact of climate change on human rights, Recalling article 2 of the Paris Agreement, which states that the Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by (a) holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) making finance flows consistent with a pathway GE.24-18734 (E)