Mary Robinson Climate Change and Justice Barbara Ward Lecture Chatham House, London 11 December 2006 Mary Robinson, a former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, calls for policymakers to adopt an approach to climate change that is rooted in the international human rights framework. "We can no longer think of climate change as an issue where we the rich give charity to the poor to help them cope. Rather, this has now become an issue of global injustice that will need a radically different approach." "Climate change has already begun to affect the fulfilment of human rights, and our shared human rights framework entitles and empowers developing countries and impoverished communities to claim protection of these rights." http://www.iied.org/