The Foundation’s approach strives to ensure that policy decisions are informed by the expertise of those people affected by the impacts of climate change, and calls for solutions whose creation includes the people these policies are made for, such as grassroots practitioners like Kirdanu Girmay, a farmer and researcher from Tigray, Ethiopia (right), who participated alongside Berhanu Woelde-Michael, Director, Food Security Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Ethiopia (centre) and Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Regional Programme Leader, CCAFS (left), in a capacity building workshop that enabled them to share their expertise with high-level policy makers during the Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice Conference in Dublin in 2013.

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Education for Climate Justice

Posted on 14th November 2014

This article is in Categories: Briefs and Position Paper, Climate Justice Dialogue, Development, Education, Future Generations, Harness the Transformative Power of Education for Climate Stewardship, Human Rights, Respect and Protect Human Rights

Author: Ravi Kanbur, T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University. Climate Justice Principle: Transformative Power of Education.

This essay considers the transformative power of education in its many dimensions as one entry point into expanding the scope of policy instruments for climate justice.

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