A difficult truth, with an opportunity

We face a difficult truth. While Paris remains an unprecedented success, it is also a fragile foundation for action. The movement to address climate change — and to promote climate justice — must now shift to a new stage, with urgency and determination. All of us — governments, both powerful and small, prosperous and impoverished; cities, communities, business leaders, and individuals — bear responsibility. We must all take up this opportunity. The threat to our planet may be dire, but the potential opportunity is historic —   the chance to stop an existential threat, to conquer poverty and inequality, and to empower those who have been left behind and neglected.

Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; former and first female President of Ireland.