CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Part IV provides recommendations on how national governments and other actors can better integrate human rights considerations into their mitigation and adaptation activities. Our key recommendations for the parties to the UNFCCC include: • National parties should commit to more ambitious mitigation targets to ensure that the global average temperature increase remains at or below 2°C. • The COP should recognize the link between climate change and human rights in the Paris Agreement. • The safeguards for the various climate finance mechanisms should be made uniform and revised to ensure full respect for human rights. • National parties should increase financial and technical assistance to developing countries that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, to protect human rights in those areas. • National parties should continue to discuss the issue of loss and damage in a transparent way that will address the concerns of all affected countries. The report also contains other recommendations to national governments on measures they can adopt unilaterally to protect human rights in the context of climate change, as well as recommendations to local governments and private actors. http://www.grida.no/photolib/detail/woman-working-in-field-nepal_c46f x Lawrence Hislop Glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas.