April 2013
Reflections on Climate Justice from Santiago, Chile
This piece was co-authored with Tara Shine, head of research and development at the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.
December 2012
China Central Television (CCTV) Interview: Providing equality for the poor
Mary Robinson was interviewed by CCTV at COP18: "We have a charge of ultimate huge responsibility for the future of our planet... We can take decisions now that [the world's population in 2050] will not be able to take. It will be too late."
June 2012
Rio+20: We're not colonies anymore
Jay Naidoo, founding General Secretary of Cosatu: "The planet is in a mess, and climate change is perhaps the biggest threat to both prosperity and political stability worldwide. It is always the poor who suffer most; and yet the battle continues to be led by those who do not have the best interests of the most vulnerable at heart. But why? Perhaps it’s time, instead, to mobilise the people..."
Climate Justice: Creating Urgency and Safeguarding Rights
This post was co-authored by Mary Robinson, President of MRFCJ, and Manish Bapna, Acting President of the World Resources Institute: The United Nations climate change convention is 20 years old this month. As we see from the just-completed climate talks in Bonn, Germany, we still haven't solved the problem nor even agreed how to solve it. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change become more apparent, hitting the poorest and most vulnerable the hardest...
March 2012
MSPs in ‘world first’ climate event
– Press Association
Members of the Scottish Parliament have held what was said to be the world's first parliamentary debate on climate justice.
January 2012
Climate issues crucial, says Robinson
– The Irish Times
At the lecture organised by UCC’s Centre for Global Development Mary Robinson explored the outcomes of the most recent UN climate change conference, which took place in Durban, South Africa last month.
December 2011
The Economic Potential of Green Cities
Mary Robinson was one of four leading climate change thinkers discussing how viable it is to invest in sustainable cities in a debate hosted by CNN's Robyn Curnow during the 2011 U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Durban.
Climate Change is a matter of justice - The Guardian
Having a legal framework is critically important, write Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
New deal on Kyoto successor more likely - The Irish Times
As Ministers began arriving in Durban yesterday for the final week of the UN Climate Change Conference, an upbeat mood replaced despondency about the prospects of reaching. Mary Robinson said the negotiating text at the talks was being blocked by linked items on levying aviation and shipping for their carbon emissions and trade issues, but it needed to deliver action on the links between climate change and food security.
Interview with Mary Robinson at the COP17 UN Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa – OneWorld TV
“The world that benefitted from fossil-fuel growth is not accepting that there is a need to be much more urgent about mitigating and doing it with an international-rules based system”
UN climate talks see ‘delayer countries’ throw away the 2C goal - the Guardian
Michael Jacobs, visiting professor at London School of Economics, who attended MRFCJ’s meeting on the legal form of new climate agreement, writes that the goal of holding global warming to 2C will be missed if the world’s largest economies insist on delaying negotiations.
November 2011
The Durban Dictionary – the Indian Express
Article by Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, India who presented at our meeting on the legal form of a new climate agreement in September 2011.
September 2011
Ireland has bridging role between EU and the Developing World, says Mrs Robinson - The Epoch Times
An interview with Mary Robinson about climate justice and the need for a legally-binding agreement.
Mary Robinson: Climate change a rights issue - RTÉ News
Speaking in Dublin, Mary Robinson called for a legally binding international agreement: to compel richer nations to support the poorest counties and help them to adapt to climate change.
Climate change 'threatens human rights' - The Irish Times
Speaking at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin (IIEA), Mary Robinson said climate change amounts to a serious threat from developed nations to the human rights of those living in undeveloped parts of the world.
Protecting the Most Vulnerable – the Role of Climate Justice - the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA)
Speaking at the IIEA, Mary Robinson said “Climate justice is one of the most urgent human rights issues of our time”.
June 2011
Mary Robinson’s new foundation aims to give leadership on climate change - The Epoch Times
Interview with Mary Robinson about her efforts to address the inequalities of climate change through the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.
May 2011
IEA report is the wakeup call we needed - BBC World Service Newshour
Interview with Mary Robinson ‘We need to have a pathway to a legally binding agreement that is fair’.
March 2011
Time is ticking on climate change: we urgently need a new, legally binding agreement with concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gases - London School of Economics
Blog by Mary Robinson about the need for a legally binding agreement on climate change
