Day 2
On the second day of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, keynote speaker and former Irish President Mary Robinson posed a question about a pretty, yellow plant we all know but might not love: the
“The actions we need to take may not be profitable in the short run but if we don't take those actions, human civilization itself is threatened."—Gillian Marcelle, CEO and founder of Resilience Capital Ventures, LLC
David Wallace-Wells is a columnist and opinion writer for The New York Times.
Nick Clark is the environment editor at Al Jazeera English, where he plays a leading role in shaping the channel’s environmental coverage.- Megan O’Toole is an award-winning investigative and data journalist with a career spanning two decades.
Angelo C. Louw is an award-winning documentarian and social justice activist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Legborsi Saro Pyagbara is executive director of the Indigenous Centre for Energy and Sustainable Development, ICE-SD.
Augustine Njamnshi is a lawyer with 26 years of experience in environmental policy and governance advocacy in Cameroon and the Central African subregion.- For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia.