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At the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance—an international initiative supported by CU Boulder and others—announced the Human Rights Climate Commitments. The first draft of the commitments will be an outcome of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus Dec. 1–4.
Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on how the law can be used to address the negative impacts of climate change on human rights around the world.
Organizers of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit have announced a range of community-focused events. The new Think Globally, Engage Locally Panel Series places the impact, obligations and solutions themes of the global summit into a national and local context.
Four CU Boulder faculty will join representatives from 197 countries and hundreds of activists, scientists and industry representatives in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to contribute insights on the impact of climate change on human rights, the importance of forest conservation and trends in climate change communication.
Poor communities and developing countries are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme weather and changing environments. As the costs of global climate action add up, there is growing consensus that the world’s polluters should foot most of the bill. Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.
As climate change increasingly threatens the environment and the people who depend upon it, Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Kera Sherwood-O’Regan serves as a vocal advocate not only for her fellow Māori—the Indigenous people of New Zealand—but also for people with disabilities. Learn more about Sherwood-O'Regan and how to get involved in the summit.
When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family’s chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.
Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. But the scenery has changed significantly. Learn about Dolma Sherpa, one of several panelists at the campus's Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in December.
For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia. Learn more about Saño, a panelist at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, and the experiences that shaped him.
CU 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 galvanize people to take action.