Committee: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Sponsors: European Union, China, United States of America
Signatories: Egypt, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Cook Island
Topic: Addressing the impacts of climate change on children & women
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change,
Recognizing the significance of collaboration to ensure gender equality and children rights in
the context of climate change,
Being aware of significant obstacles which women and children are facing especially in
developing countries, in terms of human rights violations during events of climate change,
Acknowledging the social-cultural gap and different stances among nations,
Realizing to protect the human rights of children and women in the context of climate change,
1. Acknowledges human rights in the process of building adaptive capacities in
climate-vulnerable communities:
a. Urging to apply a rights-based approach to policy and development, as called for by
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
b. Considering the states of the linkages between human rights and climate change
during the universal periodic review;
c. Recognizing the manner in which factors such as discrimination, and disparities in
education and health affect climate vulnerability;
d. Devoting adequate resources to the realization of the economic, social and cultural
rights of all persons, particularly those facing the greatest risks;
2. Encourages the inclusiveness of women and youth in the decision-making process
and climate discussions by establishing promotional campaigns:
a. Ensuring the right to education and investment into programs for adaptation,
mitigation and capacity building for women and children:
i. Reminding all Member States to ensure the percentage of women in
national systems is not below 30% to narrow the gap between genders in
accessing positions in national systems,
ii. Upholding women’s socio-economic status via empowering them in
cultural and political life,
iii. Establishing a framework for the process of employment which is
against discrimination,
3. Establishes a framework for climate adaptation, including but not limited to:
a. Legal and institutional elements: decision-making, institutional mechanisms,
legislation, implementing human right norms, tenure and ownership, regulatory
tools, legal principles, governance and coordination arrangement, resource
allocation, networking civil society;
b. Policy and planning elements: risk assessment and monitoring, analysis, strategy
formulation, and sectoral measures;
c. Livelihood elements: food security, hunger, poverty, non-discriminatory access;
i. Promoting alternative livelihood and small-scale entrepreneurship,
ii. Implementing projects such as excavating canals, reducing water logging,
raising of embarkments,
iii. Vocational training for out-of-school youth and women, related to
renewable energy technologies, rainwater catchment, groundwater recharge,
and small-scale irrigation environmental clean-up,
d. Cropping, livestock, forestry, fisheries and integrated farming system elements:
food crops, cash crops, growing season, crop suitability, livestock fodder and
grazing management, non-timber forest products, agroforestry, aquaculture,
integrated crop-livestock, silvo-pastoral, water management, land use planning,
soil fertility, soil organisms;
e. Ecosystem elements: species composition, biodiversity, resilience, ecosystem
goods and services;
f. Linking climate change adaptation processes and technologies for promoting
carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil fuels, promoting the use of bioenergy;
4. Enhances educational programs and investments focusing on the environment and
climate change that ensures the right to education:
a. Mapping disasters preparedness and avoiding risks for youth-led
communities:
i. Equipping young people with skills in disaster prevention and emergency
response,
ii. Suggesting the use of participatory mapping as a tool to enhance disaster risk
awareness and facilitate discussion around disaster-related concepts among the
youth,
b. Increasing awareness and Advocacy activities:
i. Encouraging climate change learning,
ii. Motivating adolescents to launch programs and campaigns to improve
understanding of climate change,
c. Building school gardening programmes to support nutrition:
i. Increasing students’ access to healthy food in schools and encourage them to
adopt healthy eating behaviours/habits,
ii. Providing schools with the criteria and guidelines to build a self-sufficient
model of clean vegetables,
iii. Propagating and replicate the model on a large scale,
d. Expanding the network of schools nationwide:
i. Build schools in rural areas, create conditions for children in slums to have
access to education
5. Calls upon all member states to promote green energy systems:
a. Exchanging technology and support human resource training:
i. Sending experts from developed countries to developing countries to assess
the application of technology,
ii. Sending surveyors to keep track of the use of financial support,
iii. Demanding for one-fifth of technical training program participants is
women
b. Facilitating the construction of clean energy generating plants in developing
countries:
i. Giving enough focus on implementing the program,
ii. Following strictly the instructions and technical requirements given by the
experts,
iii. Enabling validators to evaluate the process and results,
iv. Equipping tracking systems which keep track of the development of
renewable energy by ensuring that no extra charge is made, and all activities
outlined in it are adhered to effectively,
c. Developed countries commit to open the market if the products of developed
countries meet international standards,
6. Motivates the practices of agricultural adaptation strategies:
a. Expanding water retention capacity of an agricultural landscape:
i. Examining and reconstruct old drainage systems,
ii. Rebuilding morphological structures in rivers,
iii. Setting up flood control reservoirs,
b. Small-scale groundwater irrigation:
i. Reducing surface run-off,
ii. Increasing timing of wastewater release,
iii. Developing habitats for water cleaning,
iv. Designing flow schemes to avoid extended periods of low water,
c. Improving soil fertility and nutrient management:
i. Focusing on system-wide improvement in nitrogen use efficiency;
ii. Promoting low tillage and maintenance of permanent soil cover;
iii. Conducting research on baseline data of land cover assessment and
monitoring;
iv. Using environmentally friendly fertilizers, avoid using more than the
indicated dosage;
7. Builds early warning and risk management systems that can facilitate adaptation to
climate variability and change, including but not limited to:
a. A historical climate data archive; an archive on climate impacts on agriculture;
b. Monitoring tools using systematic meteorological observations;
c. Climate data analysis (to determine the patterns of inter-annual and intra-season
variability and extremes);
d. Information on the characteristics of system vulnerability and adaptation effectiveness
such as resilience, critical thresholds and coping mechanisms (this information is
required to identify opportunities for adaptation measures, and the potential of
particular practices);
e. Crop weather insurance indices to reduce the risk of climate impacts for lower-income
farmers;
● 8. Enhances women and children’s health in context of climate change
a. Conducting comprehensive mapping of existing environmental health tracking
systems in countries and identify the one most suitable to host Children and Women
Environmental Health Indicators;
b. Mapping data sources with the goal of populating data tables for each indicator,
resolvable at the finest possible geographic level and stratified by important
population characteristics such as gender, relative economic advantage and age group;
c. Refining the current list of Children and Women Health Indicators projects and
programs, for aspects such as indicator definition, computation method, possible data
source and characteristics of existing data for each project;
d. Developing a cross-sectoral mechanism to coordinate the health sector, environment
sector and other relevant sectors in creating a national children’s environmental health
plan and tracking system that builds on the Children and Women Health Indicators
work in China;
e. Publishing regular overall well-being of women and children at national and
subnational levels under the form of statistics;
f. Working with children, youth networks and private sector partners to share
information about children’s environmental health updates; e
