108 countries. Technology transfers between States should take place as needed and appropriate to ensure a just, comprehensive and effective international response to climate change. States should also take steps to ensure that global intellectual property regimes do not obstruct the dissemination of mitigation and adaptation technologies while at the same time ensuring that these regimes create appropriate incentives to help meet sustainable development objectives. The right of indigenous peoples to participate in decision making related to and benefit[ing] from the use of their knowledge, innovations and practices should be protected.497 iii. Cooperate towards the Creation of a Legally Binding Instrument to Strengthen the Implementation of the UNGP-BHR, and Provide Redress Mechanisms for Victims of Human Rights Harms Caused by Businesses States “must take adequate measures to protect all persons from human rights harms caused by businesses,”498–including those arising from the impacts of climate change. Further international legislation that will close global governance gaps and make businesses “accountable for their climate impacts and participate responsibly in climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts with full respect for human rights”499 is needed. This regulation must necessarily include State “activities conducted in partnership with the private sector” or “[w]here States incorporate private financing or marketbased approaches to climate change within the international climate change framework.”500 For the proposed treaty to be fully meaningful, the Commission further endorses the recommendation to include redress mechanisms and effective remedies for victims of human rights violations committed by enterprises pursuant to or in the conduct of business activities. 497 OHCHR, CoP 21 Submission, supra note 349, at 4, para. 7. 499 Id. (Emphasis supplied). 498 500 Id. at 4, para. 8 (Emphasis supplied). Id. (Emphasis supplied).

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