This brief highlight the essential obligations and responsibilities of States and other duty-bearers (including businesses) and their implications for climate change-related agreements, policies, and actions. The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

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Organization: OHCHR

Theme: Other

Topics: Human Rights and Justice, COP22 List of UN Publications

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2016

Language: English