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.
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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Human rights focus can strengthen Paris climate deal
A Comment on RTCC.org by Manuel González-Sanz, Marc Limon, Cecilia Rebong and Mary Robinson: Climate change may constitute the most serious challenge to the fulfilment of human rights in our world today
RTCC.org – Manuel González-Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica; Marc Limon, Executive Director of Universal Rights Group; Cecilia Rebong, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Philippines to the United Nations at Geneva; and Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice write about climate change challenging the fulfilment of human rights in our world today.
