{"id":7483,"date":"2015-04-22T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:42:42","slug":"mary-robinson-un-envoy-climate-agenda-makes-2015-the-most-important-year-since-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7483","title":{"rendered":"Mary Robinson, UN Envoy: Climate Agenda Makes 2015 the \u2018Most Important Year Since 1945\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/desmog.uk\/2015\/04\/22\/mary-robinson-un-envoy-climate-agenda-makes-2015-most-important-year-1945\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Robinson, UN Envoy: Climate Agenda Makes 2015 the \u2018Most Important Year Since 1945\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/theelders.org\/mary-robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Robinson<\/a>, the United Nations envoy on climate change, warns that the transition away from fossil fuels must happen immediately to achieve climate\u00a0justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am struck by the fact that Eleanor Roosevelt, and her commission, who drew up the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/documents\/udhr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a declaration adopted by every country in the world \u2013 never imagined that human-induced climate change might force whole countries to go out of\u00a0existence.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not on course for a safe world for millions of people and, even more seriously, for their children and grandchildren. We urgently need to change course and catalyse a transformation in the way we develop, the way we live, the way we do\u00a0business.<\/p>\n<p>Our current system is flawed and unsustainable and if it continues the world is on course for catastrophic climate change and vast\u00a0inequality.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s turn this on its head and make it positive, because we now know far better ways of doing things that could shape a more inclusive, equitable, sustainable and safe future for all. The transformative change needed [in response to] the impacts of climate is our opportunity to work for a much better and safer\u00a0world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climate\u00a0Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to talk to you about climate change from my perspective, which is one of justice, human rights and fairness, for people and their right to development are at the heart of the\u00a0discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I do so with humility because when I served as\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span>\u00a0high commissioner of human rights in 1997 to 2002 climate change wasn\u2019t front of my mind. I don\u2019t recall making any major speech on climate change or making any link between climate change and human\u00a0rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Robinson, UN Envoy: Climate Agenda Makes 2015 the \u2018Most Important Year Since 1945\u2019 Mary Robinson, the United Nations envoy on climate change, warns that the transition away from fossil fuels must happen immediately to achieve climate\u00a0justice. I am struck by the fact that Eleanor Roosevelt, and her commission, who drew up theDeclaration of Human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[113,141,328,369,4887],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-global-warming","tag-mary-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}