A/HRC/46/34/Add.1 (d) Ensure that all relevant stakeholders are consulted when designing plans and programmes to address the impacts of climate change and ensure that all such efforts respect human rights, including cultural rights; (e) Systematically involve the population in disaster risk management and response, including the empowerment of women and youth in this endeavour; (f) In designing and implementing measures related to the question of the climate change-related migration of Tuvaluans, consider the balance to be struck between reinforcing Tuvaluan identities, values and ways of life and preparing Tuvaluans to be world citizens, open to and welcoming of cultural diversity; (g) Develop initiatives aimed at digitizing and preserving traces of cultural practices, sites and objects that may be lost due to the climate emergency; in doing so, ensure consultative processes and the use of participatory approaches to the identification and prioritization of heritage resources. 78. To address the rising existential threat of climate change faced by Tuvaluans, States across the world and the international community should: (a) Systematically and urgently address climate change and its impacts on culture and cultural rights; (b) Urgently consider possible ways of ensuring the continued sovereignty of Tuvalu and the recognition of Tuvaluans as a people if the territory is inundated; (c) Fully implement their obligations under the Paris Agreement and remain or become parties to that agreement; (d) Fully implement the relevant recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment and of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights in her report to the General Assembly, issued in 2020 (A/75/298). 18

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