105 individual citizens, must engage in securing a sustainable future. “[P]olitical commitment and follow-through, institutional frameworks, policies and instruments with clear goals and priorities, enhanced knowledge on impacts and solutions, mobilization of and access to adequate financial resources,monitoring and evaluation,and inclusive governance processes”484 are all necessary to sustain climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience actions. The Commission agrees that, if the international community persists in its “business-asusual” paradigm despite climate change, the diminution of fundamental rights will become the norm in many nations, or even worse. Cooperation among all duty-bearers and rightsholders is of primal importance, if we are to truly reverse the dangerous path we are on. It the spirit of cooperation, the Commission endorses the following recommendations: 1. To Governments The very nature of climate change and its worldwide impacts require States to commit to global collective action. The UNFCCC recognizes that effective climate action requires "the broadest possible cooperation by all countries, as well as their involvement in an efficient and acceptable international response in accordance with their shared yet distinct responsibilities."485 Ecosystems and people have substantially different vulnerabilities among and within regions due to various “patterns of intersecting socioeconomic development, unsustainable ocean and land use, inequity, marginalization, historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism, and governance.”486 In addition, “[a]cross sectors and regions[,] the most vulnerable people and systems are observed to be disproportionately affected.”487 As climate change’s consequences and risks are much more severe in low-income countries, developed countries have a special obligation and interest to aid poorer developing countries.488 484 IPCC, AR6, WGII, SPM, supra note 281 (Statement C.5). 485 United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, A/ RES/48/189 (Jan. 20, 1994) (Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement also explicitly 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”). 486 IPCC, AR6, WGII, SPM, supra note 281 (B.2, at 13). 487 IPCC, AR6, WGII, SPM, supra note 281 (Statement b.1, at 11). 488 Laudato Si, supra note 304, no. 170.

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