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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Rights for Action – Putting People at the Centre of Action on Climate Change

Posted on 13th November 2015

This article is in Categories: Briefs and Position Paper, Ensure that Decisions on Climate Change are Participatory, Transparent and Accountable, Harness the Transformative Power of Education for Climate Stewardship, Highlight Gender Equality and Equity, Human Rights, Respect and Protect Human Rights, Support the Right to Development, Use Effective Partnerships to Secure Climate Justice

A research publication compiled by the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice to assist policy makers in designing climate change related actions that fully respect human rights. The publication includes 5 cases studies on the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, the right to access to information, the right to education and the right participation.

2nd Edition: November 2015.

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