Impacts
- Julieta Martinez, founder of Tremandas Hilda Flavia Nekabuye, who started the Uganda branch of Fridays for Future, a youth-led global climate strike movement
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier has a simple prescription for staying warm in the icy fringes of the Arctic where average annual temperatures can plummet down to near zero degrees Fahrenheit: Don’t eat brand-name soup.
- 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.
- Elham Youssefian joined the International Disability Alliance (IDA) Secretariat in November 2019 as the inclusive humanitarian action and DRR advisor.
- If you've ever caught yourself mouthing the words "I'm Lakshmi Singh" at the start of one of her newscasts, you're not alone. It's a thing.
- Justin Worland is a Washington D.C.-based senior correspondent for Time covering climate change and the intersection of policy, politics and society.
- Nahla Haidar El Addal is one of the vice chairpersons of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
- Astrid Puentes Riaño is a lawyer with more than two decades of experience in environmental law, human rights and climate change, and the intersection of these, with a perspective of climate justice, diversity, equity and inclusion
- Plastic waste has become a consistent pollution and threat of the 21st century, affecting public health, livelihoods and our natural environment.
- People everywhere are being affected by the growing climate crisis, with many people—those who have contributed little to the crisis—already experiencing the loss of life and basic human rights.