A/75/298 B. Recommendations 81. To implement cultural rights and safeguard culture and cultural heritage in the face of the climate emergency, States and other relevant actors, including international organizations, environmental bodies, businesses and experts should urgently: (a) Adopt a human rights-based global action plan to save the cultures of humanity and protect cultural rights from the climate emergency, a plan that is globally coordinated and resourced, but driven by local priorities and concerns, with adequate funding, monitoring and follow-up; (b) Prioritize the need for an especially urgent, effective and concerted global effort to prevent the cultural extinction of populations facing particular threats from the climate emergency, such as those in polar and coastal regions, including indigenous peoples and those living in small island States; (c) Take cultural rights and cultural impacts into consideration in responding to all aspects of climate change and in climate action; (d) Include harm to culture, cultural heritage and cultural rights in any inventory of harms resulting from or likely to result from climate change, or from mitigation and adaptation actions, as well as in all environmental impact and climate vulnerability assessments and in policy responses at all levels; (e) Conduct more analysis and documentation of past, ongoing and expected damage to cultures, cultural heritage and cultural rights from climate change, including about underexplored topics such as intangible heritage; (f) Embrace and leverage the role of data in measuring climate changeinduced destruction of all forms of culture and cultural heritage, and in protecting and restoring culture and cultural heritage following such damage; (g) Design appropriate measures for monitoring the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and adapting to the adverse consequences thereof; and consider adaptations such as comprehensively recording and digitizing culture and cultural heritage and providing adequate funding and technical cooperation; (h) Develop effective strategies for communicating to the public about climate-related threats to culture, cultural heritage and cultural rights and their importance in effective climate action; (i) Fully explore the potential of culture and cultural heritage and traditional, indigenous and local knowledge to enhance mitigation and adaptation efforts; and promote awareness of and respect for rights-respecting traditional knowledge, including its importance in responding to the climate emergency; (j) Ensure that scientific knowledge about climate change, including its impacts on culture, is made accessible, including in local and indigenous languages and non-verbal modes of communication, and widely available; (k) Promote and support cultural expressions around climate change and its effects; (l) Respect and ensure the rights of cultural rights defenders, indigenous human rights defenders and environmental human rights defenders working on issues related to climate change; and support and promote their work; 20-10595 21/23