Mary Robinson is a former UN high commissioner for human rights and president of Ireland. I asked her why she believes climate change is also a matter of human rights in the developing world.
"The impact of climate change is immediately to affect human rights - the right to food, the right to safe water and education. The wider reason is that it is the industrialised countries who are responsible for greenhouse gases but the impact is in the poor countries.
"Their capacity to implement human rights reforms is then undermined by climate change - there are droughts, women have to walk further to get water, and it is this chain of effects that is damaging their human and social rights."
Earlier, she had spoken of the importance of action on climate change to the Gleneagles agenda, telling a development and environment conference in Edinburgh it was vital to make the connections clear.
"It is not sufficient to have debt cancellation, aid raised to 0.7% of GDP and fair trade if you also have global warming and environmental degredation," she told an audience at the Dynamic Earth centre. "We have to mobilise to make sure climate change is on the same frontburner in people's minds as the other issues."
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