126 integrated in the process of tailoring and tracking goals, targets and indicators”543 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It highlighted the role of NHRIs to “promote remedies for all human rights violations and … use their protection powers to address serious human rights concern linked to the implementation”544 of development goals, including the realization of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 13 on climate action. The declaration also encouraged cooperation between NHRIs and private actors, reaffirming the role businesses can play in fulfilling the SDGs, and highlighting the need to align implementation with the UNGP-BHR and other international human rights standards.545 A month later, in November 2015, the Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions adopted the St. Julian’s Declaration on Climate Justice,546 the first collaborative declaration of commitments signed by NHRIs, acknowledging and affirming their role in climate action. More recently, during its Annual Meeting in December 2020, GANHRI adopted an outcome statement on the role of NHRIs in combating the climate crisis.547 Recognizing that a human rights-based approach leads to more sustainable and effective climate action and policies, it called on all States to ratify and implement international and regional human rights instruments. Likewise, it called for the implementation of the provisions of the Paris Agreement, to promote human-rights based and people-centered climate action.548 Also noteworthy in the statement is the recognition of the need for climate justice, which it defined “as addressing the climate crisis with a human rights-based approach whilst also making progress towards a just transition to a zero-carbon economy.”549 543 Mérida Declaration, supra note 541. 544 Id. 545 Id. para. 11. 546 Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, St. Julian’s Declaration on Climate Justice (2015), at 5. 547 Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, GANHRI Statement Adopted at the GANHRI Annual Conference on Climate Change: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions (adopted on Dec. 4, 2020), available at https://ganhri.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EN_Climate-changeand-NHRIs.pdf [hereinafter GANHRI Statement]. 548 Id. para. 2. 549 Id. para. 3.