Inside the Global Climate Summit - September 2022 | Panelists & Keynotes
Summit Updates

Kumi Naidoo, a South African activist, Rhodes scholar and former executive director of Greenpeace International, will deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in Boulder, Colorado.
Sessions for Day 1: Impacts of climate change on human rights | Dec. 2, 2022
The first day of the global climate summit frames climate change within the context of human rights: how the most vulnerable people and populations experience the most extreme effects of climate change, resulting in loss of land, livelihood and universal human rights.
Virtual registration is free and open to all. You can select specific panel sessions to attend for each day of the summit.
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Why this Indigenous rights activist does not take clean water for granted
Across Canada, millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap. But Indigenous activist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted.
Her family lost their farm in Uganda to climate change. Now she’s standing up for the future.
Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye first experienced the impacts of climate change before she even knew what the term meant.
To prevent future death and destruction, Yeb Saño is confronting the human rights violations that fuel climate change
For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.
A changed landscape and lost traditions: One Nepali woman’s search for Indigenous solutions to climate change
Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village.
Climate change hits disabled and Indigenous communities hard. Kera Sherwood-O’Regan wants their voices heard.
When Kera Sherwood-O’Regan was young, her parents gathered the pito (umbilical cord) that had nurtured her in the womb, and, per tradition, buried it on sacred coastal grounds in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand, alongside the remains of her ancestors.
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