Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future / Mary Robinson with Caitríona Palmer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding climate justice -- Learning from lived experience -- The accidental activist -- Vanishing language, vanishing lands -- A seat at the table -- Small steps towards equality -- Migrating with dignity -- Taking responsibility -- Leaving no one behind -- Paris - the challenge of implementing

Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change.