Mary Robinson - New Climate Economy Report Launch in Ireland - 3 February 2015
Channel: IIEA
Date: 05/02/2015

About the Speech:
 
The New Climate Economy Report, launched at the Climate Summit in New York in September 2014, explores how to advance the joint goals of economic prosperity and combating climate change. Part III of the report identifies opportunities to boost investment and productivity while reducing emissions in the agriculture and forestry sector. This is a particularly important issue for Ireland given the importance of the agricultural sector to the economy, and its significant contribution to national greenhouse gas emissions. At this event, Mary Robinson and Christopher Delgado will offer perspectives on how the nexus of challenges associated with agriculture, climate change, food security and development can best be managed. 
 
About the Speakers:
 
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002) has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She now serves as President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. Since July 2014, she is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change. Christopher Delgado is a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he works on the interactions among climate change, agriculture and food security. He also coordinates the Land Use topic of the New Climate Economy project, a multi-institution research inquiry on the interactions between economic and climate policies. He came to WRI from the World Bank where he was the Economics and Policy Practice Leader in the Agriculture and Environmental Services Department.