Day 2

On the second day of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit , keynote speaker and former Irish President Mary Robinson posed a question about a pretty, yellow plant we all know but might not love: the dandelion. She used the metaphor of the common weed to illustrate—and name—the...

To hold governments and industry accountable for protecting human rights threatened by climate change, youth, women and front-line communities must mobilize. Economists and investors must rethink what success looks like. And, as a last resort, litigation must be used, according to speakers at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate...

David Wallace-Wells is a columnist and opinion writer for The New York Times.

Marieke Faber is a partner at law firm NautaDutilh.

Megan O’Toole is an award-winning investigative and data journalist with a career spanning two decades.

Angelo C. Louw is an award-winning documentarian and social justice activist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Legborsi Saro Pyagbara is executive director of the Indigenous Centre for Energy and Sustainable Development, ICE-SD.

Augustine Njamnshi is a lawyer with 26 years of experience in environmental policy and governance advocacy in Cameroon and the Central African subregion.

For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village.