62 Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness 62 in the Context of Climate Change PART B 7. GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS | Recommendation 7 Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change PART B 7. GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS | Recommendation 7 Implementation: 7.40 To implement Recommendation 7, States can: •Adopt and implement nationality laws that grant nationality to children born in the territory of the State who would otherwise be stateless. •Adopt and implement laws to grant nationality to foundlings, or abandoned children of unknown parentage, present in the territory of the State. •Ensure that all nationals, women and men, have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children without discrimination. •Ensure that naturalized nationals have the same rights as natural born nationals to confer their nationality to their children. •Accede to CEDAW without reservations, or remove reservations, and implement its provisions with retroactive effect through domestic laws and policies. •Accede to the CRC without reservations, or remove reservations, and implement its provisions with retroactive effect through domestic laws and policies. Risks of childhood statelessness may persist or be heightened in the context of climate change, as climate-related hazards have the potential to cause loss of life, displacement, family separation and destruction of documentation. IV. Prevent IV. Prevent Recommendation 7 7.39 For more information on preventing childhood statelessness, please refer to UNHCR’s Global Action Plan 2.0, Action 2: Ensure that no child is born stateless and Action 3: Remove gender discrimination from nationality. Please also refer to UNHCR’s Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child’s Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1–4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, UNHCR’s Good Practices Paper — Action 2: Ensuring that no child is born stateless, and UNHCR’s Good Practices Paper — Action 3: Removing Gender Discrimination from Nationality Laws. 63