A/HRC/40/53 70. In 2018, the Special Rapporteur considered the impact of climate change on cultural heritage. Many world heritage sites are already threatened by, inter alia, rising sea levels and climate change is a “threat multiplier”, magnifying existing threats to heritage, such as by fuelling conflicts. The Special Rapporteur participated in the ground-breaking “Climate heritage mobilization” side event during the Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco in September 2018. She salutes that initiative and notes (a) that the impact of climate change on cultural heritage is an urgent human rights question and must be understood and responded to as such and (b) that cultural heritage in all its forms represents a powerful resource for addressing the challenges caused by climate change. 71. The Special Rapporteur supports the Pocantico Call to Action on climate impacts and cultural heritage and endorses its appeal for ensuring that cultural heritage voices are represented in climate policy discussions. 28 She hopes to address those issues further in the future, including through a regional mission. Right to benefit from scientific progress and its applications and the cultural rights impact of patent policies 72. The integration of a cultural rights approach in the various fields of science has been more modest, with fewer organizations and platforms having embraced the recommendations of the reports of the mandate holders. However, those who have worked with a cultural rights perspective have noted that the cultural rights approach to scientific knowledge, framing it as a right with corresponding obligations and emphasizing its public good aspect, has been vital to empower activists and move forward regarding HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and the hepatitis C virus.29 More work needs to be done by the mandate on scientific freedom. Impact of commercial advertising and marketing practices on the enjoyment of cultural rights 73. The report by the Special Rapporteur on the impact of advertising and marketing practices on the enjoyment of cultural rights and its recommendation to ban all commercial advertising and marketing in schools resonated strongly with UNICEF. In 2016, it organized a workshop on children’s rights and school marketing and started discussing possible guidelines for businesses on commercial free schools, based on the rights of the child. That work continues and in December 2017, UNICEF Netherlands organized an event on children’s rights in marketing to present the guidelines. Impact of diverse forms of fundamentalism and extremism on cultural rights 74. The Special Rapporteur has worked closely with civil society, including women human rights defenders, in developing work on fundamentalism and extremism, which has provided tools for concrete human rights advocacy. For example, Muslims for Progressive Values asserted that it had “unequivocally relied on the definitions and explanations provided in report A/HRC/34/56” and viewed those definitions as normative and standardsetting. The organization affirmed that the mandate had provided civil society organizations with the language necessary to actively address and counter narratives of religion and culture that are rights-diminishing in strategic ways within the United Nations system.30 75. The work in this area, in particular the report on fundamentalism, extremism and the cultural rights of women, strengthened the interest of women human rights defenders in the mandate. The Special Rapporteur was informed by one delegation that in response to the report, its national security officials had met with officials in charge of implementing women’s rights for the first time. The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) reported that the work of the mandate on fundamentalism was crucial for women 28 29 30 14 See www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/solutions/pocantico-call-action-climate-impacts-and-culturalheritage#.XA7wt_ZFyZ8. Treatment Action Group submission, paras. 32–34. Muslims for Progressive Values submission.