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Impact of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights
Issued by
Advisory Committee
Deadline
29 April 2022
Purpose:
: invites relevant stakeholders, including Member States, international and regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Council, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Regional Economic Commissions and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, national human rights institutions, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and academic institutions, to provide inputs in order to integrate the information in the study mentioned thereafter.
Background
At its forty-eighth session (13 September-11 October 2021), the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 48/14, in which it requested the Advisory Committee to conduct a study and to prepare a report, in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, on the impact of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights, and to submit the report to the Council at its fifty-fourth session (September 2023).
To facilitate the submission of inputs, the Advisory Committee is circulating the attached questionnaire on the topic.
What is the Advisory Committee?
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, composed of 18 experts, has been established to function as a think-tank for the Council and work at its direction. The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee provides the Council upon request with implementation-oriented, thematic studies and research-based advice on issues pertaining to the mandate of the Council; namely the promotion and protection of all human rights. The Advisory Committee may propose suggestions for further enhancing its procedural efficiency, as well as further research proposals within the scope of the work set out by the Council. For more details about its mandate and activities, see the webpage.