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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Mary Robinson presented at the OECD Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) 9 October 2018

Posted on 9th October 2018

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Following the release of International Panel on Climate Change’s special report on 1.5^oC of Global Warming, Mary Robinson presented at the OECD Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on implications of the report for people, human rights and climate justice. Mary Robinson addressed the audience of experts and negotiators from around the world emphasising the urgency of the problem at the heart of the IPCC Report.

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