Why Climate Change Is a Threat to Human Rights by Mary Robinson

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the

Why Climate Change Is a Threat to Human Rights by Mary Robinson

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.

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ITU Deputy-Secretary Tomas Lamanauskas recently asked Mary de Wysocki, Cisco's Chief Sustainability Officer, about the importance of Green Digital Action to the company.

This discussion

ITU Deputy-Secretary Tomas Lamanauskas recently asked Mary de Wysocki, Cisco's Chief Sustainability Officer, about the importance of Green Digital Action to the company.

This discussion underscores the significance of sustainable digital initiatives, particularly within the context of COP28 and the broader #greendigitalaction movement.

Environmental protection agencies, designed to regulate polluting industries, have been compromised. Legal scholar

Environmental protection agencies, designed to regulate polluting industries, have been compromised. Legal scholar Mary Christina Wood suggests that the judicial system and future generations may ultimately save us.

Wood shared this perspective with Bill Moyers, emphasizing the need for intervention beyond current regulatory bodies. (Published January 2, 2015)

This episode originally streamed live on July 27, 2020 at 10:00 am Pacific / 12:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Atlantic. 

Moderator Valérie Courtois facilitates a dialogue

This episode originally streamed live on July 27, 2020 at 10:00 am Pacific / 12:00 pm Central / 2:00 pm Atlantic. 

Moderator Valérie Courtois facilitates a dialogue amongst Miles Richardson, O.C.; Dr. David Suzuki; Dr. Nancy Turner; and Elder Dr. Dave Courchene, Jr.; on the need for reconciliation between Indigenous and Western scientific ways of knowing.

Environmental protection agencies, created to regulate polluting industries, have been compromised. These bodies, meant to safeguard our environment, have been "hijacked" by the very industries

Environmental protection agencies, created to regulate polluting industries, have been compromised. These bodies, meant to safeguard our environment, have been "hijacked" by the very industries they were designed to oversee.

Legal scholar Mary Christina Wood tells Bill Moyers that our judicial system, along with future generations, may ultimately be our best hope. She suggests they will save us from ourselves.

An nterview by Ronda Carnegie of Mary Robinson, co-founders of Project Dandelion, A WOMEN-LED global campaign for CLIMATE JUSTICE. This follows the documentary, Mrs Robinson screened on

An nterview by Ronda Carnegie of Mary Robinson, co-founders of Project Dandelion, A WOMEN-LED global campaign for CLIMATE JUSTICE. This follows the documentary, Mrs Robinson screened on November 14th, 2025 at 4PM PST. 

Mary Robinson is the former President of Ireland and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

She also serves as CEO of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice.