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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Rethinking the Economy of the Future

Posted on 5th June 2014

This article is in Categories: Statements and Speeches, Human Rights, Private Sector, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Use Effective Partnerships to Secure Climate Justice

Addressing the Forum on Freedom and Solidarity in Caen France on “rethinking the economy of the future” Mary Robinson argued that “In rethinking the economy of the future, it is now time to commit to a world unconstrained by carbon emissions".

Speech by Mary Robinson on “Rethinking the Economy of the Future” at the Forum, organised by the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union.

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