The report, "States' Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change - 2019 Update", reveals the increasing engagement of these UN human rights institutions on climate change and identifies how these bodies could play an important role in holding states accountable for their climate-related obligations in the future. In particular, the human rights institutions have increasingly stressed the importance of States acting on the root causes of climate change, such as the extraction and financing of fossil fuels... [The] report builds on this commitment and compiles all recommendations made in 2018 by the human rights treaty bodies regarding states’ climate-related obligations under human rights treaties..."This Synthesis Note will be useful for States in assisting them to identify and address their human rights legal obligations, with respect to climate change. This includes obligations across different human rights treaties and for different groups, such as women, children, and indigenous people, as well as obligations with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the regulation of private actors," says Lucy Mckernan, Geneva Representative at GI-ESCR.