“Our world is hurtling towards destruction. The latest reliable scientific evidence suggests we have at most two decades before we reach tipping point and irreversible climate change. We need to think about climate justice.
“Africa is responsible for less than four per cent of carbon emissions but is already deeply affected. By 2015 we may have 100 million environmental refugees fleeing desertification or flooding.
“My grandchildren will be in their fifties by then. That’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.”
~ Mary Robinson, chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development and former President of Ireland, in an interview with The Irish Times