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 Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ, 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.

David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells is a columnist and opinion writer for The New York Times.

Tristan Ahtone

Tristan Ahtone

Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor at large at Grist.

Steve Baragona

Steve Baragona

Steve Baragona is an award-winning multimedia journalist covering science, environment and health for Voice of America (VOA).

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Megan O’Toole

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Justin Worland

Justin Worland

Justin Worland is a Washington D.C.-based senior correspondent for Time covering climate change and the intersection of policy, politics and society.

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