Skip to Content

University of Colorado Boulder
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit

Main menu

  • Home
  • Summit 2022
  • Coalition
  • Learn
  • Stories
  • Partners
University of Colorado Boulder
Search

Search

Other ways to search:

  • Events Calendar
  • Campus Map
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit

Main menu

  • Home
  • Summit 2022
  • Coalition
  • Learn
  • Stories
  • Partners

Mobile menu

  • Home
  • Summit 2022
  • Coalition
  • Learn
  • Stories
  • Partners

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

Summit Updates

Kumi Naidoo

South African activist Kumi Naidoo named keynote speaker

Solutions
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.
Day 1: impacts of climate change on human rights | Dec. 2, 2022

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.

 

Learn About Impacts

In Their Own Words

Five Right Here, Right Now summit panelists share what is happening in their nations in relation to climate change and human rights.

Tia Kennedy with her dog wading in stream

Why this Indigenous rights activist does not take clean water for granted

Impacts
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.
Hilda Flavia Nakabuye planting

Her family lost their farm in Uganda to climate change. Now she’s standing up for the future.

Impacts
Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye first experienced the impacts of climate change before she even knew what the term meant.
Yeb Saño sitting in front of mural

To prevent future death and destruction, Yeb Saño is confronting the human rights violations that fuel climate change

Impacts
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

A changed landscape and lost traditions: One Nepali woman’s search for Indigenous solutions to climate change

Impacts
Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village.
Kera Sherwood-O’Regan in New Zealand

Climate change hits disabled and Indigenous communities hard. Kera Sherwood-O’Regan wants their voices heard.

Impacts
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.

Stay Engaged

Social Media Icons

Help Spread the Word About the #RHRNClimate Summit

As valued partners and panelists for the summit, we appreciate your help in spreading the word about this important event and encouraging participation from a wide range of audiences around the world. We developed a #RHRNClimate summit communication toolkit to help:

  • Build excitement for the summit 
  • Raise awareness of a human rights approach to climate change
  • Encourage virtual registration for the summit

We will update the #RHRNClimate summit communication toolkit each month with new assets to share with your networks and on your channels. Links to the updated toolkit will be available in October and November.

 

Education Coalition

Global climate summit launches worldwide education coalition

The University of Colorado Boulder is proud to announce the launch of a worldwide education coalition in support of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, with the goal to broaden understanding of the human rights impacts of a changing global climate and encourage people to take action.

Learners and educators of all ages, from primary school classrooms to university research labs, are invited to engage in this landmark event through the new Right Here, Right Now Education Coalition.

Learn more about the coalition

 

Worth 1000 Words

Jakarta Sinking City

Jakarta Sinking City | Photography 4 Humanity

Mindful Consumption

Pakistan

In flood-hit Pakistan, Guterres appeals for ‘massive’ global support, tougher action on climate change

No Country

Human rights lawyer explores loss and impact of climate crisis in Pacific islands in new book

Wildfire

Climate change impacts ‘heading into uncharted territory,’ UN leader warns

Tipping point

Climate tipping points study provides clearest warning yet

Campus Therapy

A new campus offering: Climate anxiety therapy

Right Here Right Now Global Climate Alliance

 

About CU Boulder  About the Summit

Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter   Share on LinkedIn

 

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Boulder
© Regents of the University of Colorado
Privacy • Legal & Trademarks • Campus Map

Return to the top of the page