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The unprecedented call for climate justice has echoed from all corners of the world and was brought inside the walls of the negotiating rooms at COP21 in Paris.  We see it reflected in the pages of the Paris Agreement – even if the means to achieve it will have to come in the coming years.

Climate change is already affecting us all and the Paris Agreement adopted tonight provides the opportunity to transform our way…

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In the final days of the negotiations of the new climate agreement the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the French Presidency of the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties convened a Climate Justice Dialogue to highlight the links between climate policy and human rights.

Ms Annick Girardin, French Minister of State for Development and Francophony, co-chaired the dialogue on behalf of the COP Presidency…

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This article by Mary Robinson was first published in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on climate change and sustainable development, on 9 December 2015.

Mary Robinson write in “Outreach” – Gender Day at COP21 provides an opportunity to reflect on the need for gender…

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Thomson Reuters Foundation - Interview by Megan Rowling

PARIS - Human rights and gender equality must be enshrined in the legally binding section of a new global climate change deal in order to secure climate justice for the poorest and most vulnerable, top human rights advocate and U.N. climate envoy Mary Robinson said.

There has been controversy over where references to human rights should sit in the agreement, expected in Paris this week….

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