A/75/298 (m) Ensure an integrated approach to climate change, culture and cultural rights by: (i) Involving cultural institutions, their staffs and directors, and cultural rights defenders and experts in discussions of climate policy; and likewise ensuring that environmental experts are engaged in the development of cultural policy; (ii) Building bridges and institutionalizing networks between cultural and environmental officials, bodies and experts; (iii) Ensuring that cultural and environmental policies and laws embody a human rights approach; and that cultural policies incorporate climate change and environmental concerns, while environmental and climate change-related policies address related cultural dimensions; (n) Promote information-sharing among all relevant stakeholders across the fields of environmental protection, culture and human rights; (o) Ensure adequate funding for all programmes and policies at the intersection of climate, culture and human rights; (p) Integrate the arts, artists, culture and cultural rights defenders into climate efforts through sustainable funding and recognition; (q) Develop remedies, compensation and mechanisms for accountability for climate-related damage to culture, cultural rights and cultural heritage, and for abuses against cultural rights defenders working on these issues; (r) Guarantee that cultural rights defenders and experts, cultural heritage defenders and experts, and cultural practitioners, including representatives of indigenous peoples, women, persons with disabilities, youth and those from zones which are most affected by climate change, are involved in all climate-related policy processes at all levels; and ensure the accessibility of the meeting venues of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and related negotiations; 135 (s) Assure gender mainstreaming throughout all climate targets and climate actions, prioritizing the education of women and girls, improving gender disaggregated data (including with regard to culture-related climate impacts), and equalizing care burdens 136 and recognizing gender differences in adaptation needs, opportunities and capacities in the cultural area; (t) Advocate for strong property rights for women and indigenous peoples in line with relevant international standards; (u) Provide funding and capacity-building to enhance the ability of indigenous people to employ their traditional knowledge to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to develop inventories of such knowledge where they are unavailable; and ensure that traditional knowledge is used with the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples and in ways that respect their internationally guaranteed rights; (v) Guarantee that all climate action and initiatives are taken in coordination with, and with the participation of, indigenous peoples and directly affected local groups; and that the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples is required before implementation; __________________ 135 136 22/23 See A/HRC/44/30. UNDP, Ensuring Gender Equity in Climate Change Financing (New York, 2011), pp. 4–6. 20-10595