Inside the Global Climate Summit - February 2022
We’re convening global experts to advance human rights-based climate action.
It’s time to discuss, and act upon, the knowledge base developed around the humanitarian climate crisis. The University of Colorado Boulder and United Nations Human Rights are co-hosting the inaugural summit Dec. 1–4, 2022.
Summit themes include:
- Effects of climate change on human rights
- Obligations and responsibilities of governments and other bodies
- Actionable solutions
By gathering some of the world's foremost human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry leaders, we hope that, together, we can commit to specific outcomes that will address the harmful effects of climate change on the most basic human rights of people around the world.
Thank you for your interest in the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.
Thought Leadership
James Anaya is an internationally recognized scholar and author in the areas of international human rights and issues concerning Indigenous peoples. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples from 2008 to 2014. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Anaya has litigated major cases involving the human rights of Indigenous peoples in domestic and international tribunals.
Chancellor Philip DiStefano kicked off his annual summit Wednesday by announcing the dates of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, a first-of-its-kind gathering aimed at addressing climate change on a global and individual level, including perspectives of Indigenous peoples and others most affected by it.
Mindful Consumption
Worth 1,000 Words
Simon Kofe, Tuvalu's foreign minister, addressed COP26 in November while standing in seawater to illustrate the impacts of climate change on his island nation. “In Tuvalu, we are living the realities of climate change, sea level rise, as you stand watching me today at COP26. We cannot wait for speeches when the sea is rising around us all the time. Climate mobility must come to the forefront. We must take bold alternative action today to secure tomorrow."