Name: Why climate change is a threat to human rights
Uploaded: 2015-09-23T14:37:47Z
Duration: 21 min 32 s
Description: 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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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.

Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights

Why climate change is a threat to human rights

Chair of The Elders and former president of Ireland

Climate change's impact on human rights is profound, with poor communities facing life-threatening changes due to weather.

World leaders in 1945 rebuilt a devastated world; today's challenge is to unite for climate justice and secure a safe future.

In a race against time, global solidarity & innovative solutions like renewable energy are key to combat climate change by 2050.