Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo resists 鈥榗limate apartheid,鈥 calls for more voices, joy to address climate change

Dec. 4, 2022

In keynote address on Sunday, South African-born Kumi Naidoo stressed the need for a 鈥渕antle of leadership鈥 among all people as humanity works to address climate change, with a more inclusive, collective approach.

Mary Robinson

Women need to lead next phase of climate justice movement, Robinson says

Dec. 3, 2022

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 dandelion. She used the metaphor of the common weed to illustrate鈥攁nd name鈥攖he...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier giving her keynote address

Climate solutions lie in 鈥榗ountry food鈥 and Indigenous knowledge, Watt-Cloutier says

Dec. 2, 2022

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鈥檛 eat brand-name soup.

Kumi Naidoo

South African activist Kumi Naidoo named keynote speaker

Aug. 31, 2022

Kumi Naidoo, a South African activist, Rhodes scholar and former executive director of Greenpeace International, will deliver a keynote speech at this year鈥檚 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in 麻豆影院, Colorado.

Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo

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

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

How a human rights approach to climate change can spark real change

On Dec. 7, 2005, Canadian-born mother and grandmother Sheila Watt-Cloutier filed a 163-page petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that the impacts of climate change violated the 鈥渇undamental human rights鈥 of Indigenous Inuit people like her across the Arctic.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, global advocate for indigenous rights and health, and a leader focused on the impact of climate change on human rights, will present a keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

President Mary Robinson

President Mary Robinson

One of the world鈥檚 most respected advocates for climate justice and Ireland鈥檚 first woman President, Mary Robinson leads the Mary Robinson Foundation鈥擟limate Justice, a center for thought leadership, education and advocacy for the poor and disempowered in the world that are disproportionately threatened by climate change.

Mary Robinson

President Mary Robinson, Keynote Speaker

Former President of Ireland, Chair of The Elders & Former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change One of the world鈥檚 most respected advocates for climate justice and Ireland鈥檚 first woman President, Mary Robinson leads the Mary Robinson Foundation 鈥擟limate Justice, a center for thought leadership, education and advocacy for the...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Environmental, Cultural and Human Rights Advocate

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, global advocate for indigenous rights and health, and a leader focused on the impact of climate change on human rights, will present a keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at the 麻豆影院 in December. In 2005, Watt-Cloutier launched the world's...

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