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Development of a more just world requires financing.

Statement by Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the outcome document agreed…

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Mary Robinson joined Climate Justice champions at the People and Planet First: The Imperative to Change Course conference in Rome to mark the publication of Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si'

Mary Robinson delivered a keynote speech at the People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course conference on Friday…

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Compassion and solidarity at the heart of the moral case for climate action

I welcome the first Papal Encyclical on humanity’s relationship with the environment released today. It is significant that Pope Francis…

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Sean McCabe, Policy Assistant at the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, discusses the challenge of meaningful participation for smaller delegations at the climate change negotiations.

The most recent round of negotiations, held at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, concluded yesterday – now just…

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International delegates are gathering in Bonn for the “intersessional” conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to advance negotiations for a Paris Agreement based on the draft text that emerged in Geneva in February.

The conference, taking place in Bonn, Germnay, from 1-11 June, consists of a number of meetings that will help advance…

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Ministers from 35 countries convene in Berlin as the call for transformative leadership increases ahead of COP21 in Paris.

From 17-19 May 2015, German Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius co-chaired the 6th Petersberg…

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