MSSI Oration - Climate Justice After Paris

On Tuesday 15 March, Mary Robinson visited the University of Melbourne to deliver the inaugural oration for the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. She addressed the growing role of climate justice in climate talks and in bringing the Paris Agreement into force. 

• Read summary of Robinson’s key points
• Watch the full oration recording
• Listen to the audio of her presentation

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference is widely recognized as a key milestone in the global response to climate change; its impacts and solutions. As President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change Mary Robinson played an important role in the Paris climate conference process.

Mary Robinson was also the President of the International Commission of Jurists and chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. She served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. She is the recipient of numerous honours including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States, Barack Obama.

In the News

• Climate change research 'imperative, not luxury': Mary Robinson, ABC News
• Australia a bad neighbour to Pacific Islands on climate, says former Irish president, The Guardian
• Former Irish president Mary Robinson says climate change is a threat to human rights, ABC Radio National
• Growing outcry over planned funding cuts to CSIRO, The Mercury
• Mary Robinson: 'climate justice' must play a key role in the Paris Agreement, The Conversation