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Mary Robinson: World's poorest pay the price for our emissions
Mary Robinson: World's poorest pay the price for our emissions
“Everyone now, and I mean everyone, has to think about climate in the context of who they are and where they are. And we need to have a strong input into education, starting in primary schools.”
Mrs Robinson is to report to the UN later this year in her role as envoy for climate change and El Nino.
Her argument for more education is backed by startling figures that it takes 88 Ethiopians to emit as much carbon dioxide as one Irish person.
She was also told that 10.2m people are crying out for food aid in Ethiopia; the funding needed to save lives is €468m short; and that 3m youngsters have stopped going to school because of hunger.
Mrs Robinson marked the crisis as “the emissions problem of a rich world punishing a poor world”.
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“Everyone now, and I mean everyone, has to think about climate in the context of who they are and where they are. And we need to have a strong input into education, starting in primary schools.”
Mrs Robinson is to report to the UN later this year in her role as envoy for climate change and El Nino.
Her argument for more education is backed by startling figures that it takes 88 Ethiopians to emit as much carbon dioxide as one Irish person.
She was also told that 10.2m people are crying out for food aid in Ethiopia; the funding needed to save lives is €468m short; and that 3m youngsters have stopped going to school because of hunger.
Mrs Robinson marked the crisis as “the emissions problem of a rich world punishing a poor world”.
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