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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Meeting the energy needs of the poorest – a role for social protection

Posted on 2nd July 2013

This article is in Categories: Briefs and Position Paper, Climate Justice Dialogue, Development, Education, Ensure that Decisions on Climate Change are Participatory, Transparent and Accountable, Future Generations, Harness the Transformative Power of Education for Climate Stewardship, Human Rights, Respect and Protect Human Rights

(Second Edition: July 2013) As an organisation working on climate justice, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice is concerned that many of the initiatives working to improve access to sustainable energy will not benefit the largest but poorest socioeconomic group, the so-called bottom or base of the economic pyramid. Identifying specific measures to reach those least able to pay for energy and low-carbon technologies is a priority area for the Foundation.

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