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The Eagle Interviews Former President Mary Robinson By Rory Anthoney-Hearn, SS Law Mary Robinson is Ireland’s first female president, former United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, and current chair of The Elders, founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Robinson has been advocating in more recent years under the auspices of environmental law and climate justice, founding the Mary Robinson Climate Justice Foundation in 2010. Since then, Robinson has held the position of the United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Climate Change, incumbent in the position preceding the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016. Her climate justice book entitled Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution was published in 2018. In February 2021, Robinson chaired Trinity’s Climate Change Panel Discussion which saw the candidates vouching for the upcoming position of Provost tackle questions on how each would implement climate justice initiatives in Trinity during their decade-long tenure as Provost of the college.
