Youth climate champions speaking at the RHRN Summit

Youth, women at center of climate change fight

Dec. 4, 2022

As a child, climate activist Hilda Flavia Nekabuye’s family owned one of the biggest plantations in their village near Uganda’s Lake Victoria. But rising temperatures, rains and strong winds devastated the property and Nekabuye’s grandmother had to sell some of their land to feed her family. “I remember I had...

Panelist at the Youth Climate panel session at RHRN Summit

4 key ways to address the climate crisis now

Dec. 4, 2022

Day three of the Right Here Right Now Global Climate summit at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ was filled with discussions of concrete solutions and urgent calls for collective action to reduce the human toll of the climate crisis today and to fend off a catastrophic future. To get there, panelists and speakers...

Day 2 panel sessions

3 ways to hold government, industry accountable for addressing climate change

Dec. 3, 2022

To hold governments and industry accountable for protecting human rights threatened by climate change, youth, women and front-line communities must mobilize. Economists and investors must rethink what success looks like. And, as a last resort, litigation must be used, according to speakers at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate...

Day 1 - Impacts at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

90 countries represented in first day of global climate summit focused on human rights

Dec. 2, 2022

Nearly 4,000 people from 90 countries convened at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, either virtually or in-person Friday, for a day-long, candid exploration of something speakers contend isn’t talked about enough: how climate change impacts people’s lives right now.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Cristina Coc

Cristina Coc

The Julian Cho Society (JCS), founded by Cristina Coc, is dedicated to the conservation of the environments and rights of Indigenous peoples of southern Belize.

Constance Okollet

Constance Okollet

Constance Okollet is the chair of the Osukuru United Women’s Network (OWN) in the Tororo district of eastern Uganda, and is a self-described peasant farmer and mother of seven.

Kishore Rao

Kishore Rao

Kishore Rao is Deloitte’s global consulting sustainability and climate leader, focused on government and public sector clients.

Elham Youssefian

Elham Youssefian

Elham Youssefian joined the International Disability Alliance (IDA) Secretariat in November 2019 as the inclusive humanitarian action and DRR advisor.

Marieke Faber

Marieke Faber

Marieke Faber is a partner at law firm NautaDutilh.

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