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EDO welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change’s report on enhancing climate change legislation, support for climate change litigation and advancement of the principle of intergeneration justice, to be presented to the United Nations General Assembly in October 2023. Our submission provides overarching comments on Australia’s climate change legislation, supporting climate change litigation and First Nations Communities and human rights.