Reshaping the Debate on Climate Change - Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson's lecture took place on November 23rd 2010, and focused on reshaping the debate on climate change to focus on justice in the developing world and how addressing the issue of climate change must address the issue of justice also. According to the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice:
"The debate on climate change is becoming tense and obscure. It is being lost. It is time to change it - and the change means talking about two things: what we can do right now, and who will suffer if we fail."

The lecture was the eleventh in an ongoing series organised by the EPA. The series continues in 2011 with Climate Change -- The Transport Challenge on February 1st and Climate Change & Agriculture : ensuring food production is not threatened on Tuesday 15th March. Both of these talks will also be made available on YouTube.
You can watch all the videos in the lecture series on YouTube, see: http://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIreland#grid/user/CDE951EB77E87100

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations and most recently Head of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization initiative has established the Mary Robinson Foundation -Climate Justice. The Foundation is a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for victims of climate change who are usually forgotten -- the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world. The Foundation is based at Trinity College, Dublin.

The EPA has established a Twitter feed specifically for Climate News. See www.twitter.com/EPAClimateNews for short, timely updates from the EPA's Climate Change Unit.

The Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice can be found on the web at www.mrfcj.org, and you can follow them on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MRFCJ

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