Solutions

Elena Sánchez Nicolás covers institutional affairs, climate change, energy and tech policy for EUobserver.

David Abel is an award-winning reporter, documentary filmmaker and professor of journalism who covers environmental issues, mainly focused on climate change, for The Boston Globe.

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.

Kumi Naidoo is a South African-born human rights and climate activist.

Walter Vergara is a climate specialist with longstanding interests in a variety of climate adaptation and mitigation topics.

Mercedes García Pérez is the head of global issues and innovation at the Delegation of the European Union to the USA.

Julieta Martinez is a climate justice and gender equity youth activist. Her work focuses on girls’ education as a climate solution, since the climate crisis is not gender neutral.

Tia Kennedy is an Indigenous rights activist and youth leader in her community.

Michael Kotutwa Johnson is a member of the Hopi Tribe in Northern Arizona.

Florina Lopez is an Indigenous woman from Panama, a co-founder and coordinator of the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network, and an Indigenous activist.