Announcement /globalclimatesummit/ en 2022 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize winner announced at CU Â鶹ӰԺ /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/30/2022-photography-4-humanity-global-prize-winner-announced-cu-boulder 2022 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize winner announced at CU Â鶹ӰԺ Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/30/2022 - 18:51 Tags: Announcement window.location.href = `/today/node/49802/`;

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Living the values of the Global Climate Summit in the face of humanitarian crisis /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/29/living-values-global-climate-summit-face-humanitarian-crisis Living the values of the Global Climate Summit in the face of humanitarian crisis Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/29/2022 - 14:38 Tags: Announcement window.location.href = `/today/2022/11/28/living-values-global-climate-summit-face-humanitarian-crisis`;

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Climate change through a human rights lens: Photos on display Dec. 1–4 /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/29/climate-change-through-human-rights-lens-photos-display-dec-1%E2%80%934 Climate change through a human rights lens: Photos on display Dec. 1–4 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/29/2022 - 14:35 Tags: Announcement window.location.href = `/today/2022/11/22/climate-change-through-human-rights-lens-photos-display-dec-1-4`;

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Business, academic, government groups partner with Right Here, Right Now /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/21/business-academic-government-groups-partner-right-here-right-now Business, academic, government groups partner with Right Here, Right Now Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/21/2022 - 13:13 Tags: Announcement

Seven sponsors have joined the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit to be held in early December at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

AQ GreenTec, Deloitte, Prometheus Materials, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the journal Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (OLAR), the Climate and Health Program, and the Climate Innovation Collaboratory are summit sponsors.

Co-hosted by United Nations Human Rights and CU Â鶹ӰԺ, the three-day summit will address the interconnectedness of human rights and climate change, and explore solutions that every sector of society—government, business, education and individuals—can adopt and act upon.

Sponsor organizations provide financial support and will be featured at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit expo space, where they will present findings from their research, discuss upcoming projects and initiatives, and demonstrate their technology and innovations. Partners will also be in the expo space providing information and resources to summit attendees.

“The generous support from these institutions is yet another indication of the critical nature of the summit’s focus and the recognition that the RHRN summit is expected to be a transformational moment in framing climate change not only as an environmental issue but as a human rights issue,†said Seth Marder, summit co-chair and director of the Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). 

Partners include: RASEI, Visit Â鶹ӰԺ, the city of Â鶹ӰԺ, the Â鶹ӰԺ Reporting Lab, the Conference on World Affairs, the Center for Environmental Journalism, the Clock Tower Project, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Earth Lab, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), the Mortensen Center in Global Engineering & Resilience, the Natural Hazards Center, CU Science Discovery, Side by Side, the Water Desk, and the Western Water Assessment.

More on sponsors: 

  • provides greenhouse gas emissions management services to support companies and their stakeholders to develop and execute climate strategies that help reduce emissions and provide high-quality carbon offsets.
  • is working with CU Â鶹ӰԺ to help design and implement data-driven approaches to address the climate crisis; build a more equitable, sustainable society; and foster a more resilient environment for generations to come. In April 2022, Deloitte and CU Â鶹ӰԺ launched The Climate Innovation Collaboratory to translate cutting-edge climate research and data into meaningful climate solutions for federal, state and local government agencies and communities.
  • The (NREL) advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation and renewable power technologies, and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems. 
  • Science partner journal (OLAR) is an open access journal published in affiliation with Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory and distributed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 
  • is part of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It trains medical professionals to be leaders in climate and health, and prepares communities for the impacts of a changing climate.
  • harnesses microalgae for use as a living building material and offers a sustainable alternative to traditional portland cement.

Find more information on all partners and sponsors.

Seven sponsors have joined the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit to be held in early December at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

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CU Â鶹ӰԺ educators bring climate and human rights content into classrooms /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/10/cu-boulder-educators-bring-climate-and-human-rights-content-classrooms CU Â鶹ӰԺ educators bring climate and human rights content into classrooms Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/10/2022 - 08:43 Tags: Announcement

Students participate in a climate-based lesson during a workshop at CU Â鶹ӰԺ. Photo credit: CIRES/CU Â鶹ӰԺ

When experts from around the globe gather in Â鶹ӰԺ next month for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience, looking for stories to bring back to the classroom. They’ll be crafting meaningful lessons around the themes of the conference—impacts, obligations, and solutions—and working with an created at CU Â鶹ӰԺ to help their students understand how climate change is impacting people and communities and how they can help.

“My goal is to support the aims of the conference by helping teachers establish a human rights perspective on climate change,†said CIRES Education & Outreach Associate Patrick Chandler. “Grounding climate change education in this human rights perspective, with a focus on people and places… it can make taking action feel more urgent and more possible for students.â€

“It can also decrease student and teacher anxiety and grief around climate change,†said his colleague, Gina Fiorile, who is also part of the CIRES Education & Outreach team and Coordinator of an award-winning collection of climate education resources. Helping teachers and students figure out how to participate in solutions to climate change, at the level of their schools or in their communities, is a “proven way to help with climate anxiety,†Fiorile said. 

The educator’s guide that Chandler built for the climate change and human rights summit draws from well-established and reviewed lesson plans designed to inspire action as well as understanding. They’re all available for free through , a nationally renowned online clearinghouse that features more than 800 high-quality climate and energy resources peer-reviewed by both scientists and teachers for accuracy and classroom readiness and provides to bring climate topics into their classrooms. 

Classroom and pre-service teachers are encouraged to apply now to be part of the conference Teacher Workshop, which runs concurrently with the Summit, December 2-4 at CU Â鶹ӰԺ. These in-person spots are limited to individuals who are engaged and excited about working together to bring human rights-centered climate change education into classrooms. Participants will work in pairs or small groups to develop lesson plans that can be shared widely with others.

“Teachers right now, especially after COVID, are exhausted,†Chandler said. “The idea is for them to not do more, but rather build on content already out there. If we do this well and give educators guides and creative lesson sets, they get a push of energy added to their classrooms, something that’s fun and new and different.â€

Anne Gold, Director of the CIRES Education and Outreach program, said she’s excited to have her team engaged with the high-profile international conference which is “really focusing the world’s attention on action and empowerment and youth.†The opportunity to engage with educators, virtually and in person, is powerful, she said: “We know that teachers are multipliers in getting these empowering messages out in classrooms and communities across the country.“

Classroom teachers earn one GRTE credit hour for participation; pre-service teachers are offered a $75 stipend. Applications are due November 16 and will take most people less than 20 minutes to complete. Decisions will be announced within days after that deadline.

On the Web:

  • : Free, high-quality teaching materials for teaching climate and energy
When experts from around the globe gather in Â鶹ӰԺ next month for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience, looking for stories to bring back to the classroom.

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From COP27 stage, CU Â鶹ӰԺ, climate alliance, UN Human Rights announce development of commitments /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/08/cop27-stage-cu-boulder-climate-alliance-un-human-rights-announce-development-commitments From COP27 stage, CU Â鶹ӰԺ, climate alliance, UN Human Rights announce development of commitments Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/08/2022 - 11:16 Tags: Announcement

David Clark, Lindsay Saunders Carl, Romchat Wachirarattanakornkul, Ian Fry and S. James Anaya

Romchat Wachirarattanakornkul, Lindsay Saunders Carl, S. James Anaya, David Clark and Ian Fry

S. James Anaya and Ian Fry

Leonardo DiCaprio and the Right Here, Right Now Celebrity Coalition are backing United Nations Human Rights goals in an urgent message to world leaders via a social media blitz.

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (Nov. 8, 2022) –– At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), the ––a multiyear international climate justice initiative supported by United Nations Human Rights and the Â鶹ӰԺ –– of a groundbreaking initiative for rights-based climate action, the . 

Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights instruments, the first draft of the commitments will be an outcome of the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit (RHRN) to be held in person and virtually Dec. 1–4 at CU Â鶹ӰԺ. The summit will include participation by climate and human rights advocates, including former Irish President Mary Robinson, who also served as UN high commissioner for human rights from 1997 to 2002. and is free.

"UN Human Rights is proud to be the global partner of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance––a human rights initiative committed to promoting and advancing the rights of people around the world suffering from the devastating effects of climate change,†said Benjamin Schachter, UN Human Rights team leader for environment and climate change. “Addressing the climate crisis will require a whole-of-society effort. That’s why UN Human Rights is so excited to be a part of the alliance and see its new initiatives develop and grow in the coming years." 

David Clark, founder and CEO of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance and CEO of David Clark Cause, explained the emphasis on the most vulnerable.

“The United Nations continues to inform the world of the grave statistics showing how women, children, Indigenous peoples, the poor and the marginalized are suffering the most as the climate catastrophe escalates,†Clark said. “The creation of the commitments will provide a unique human rights framework for government and business leaders, human rights advocates, climate experts, universities, and others to kickstart critical action to address climate change and help the people most affected by it.â€.

The alliance is working with its global partner, United Nations Human Rights, and CU Â鶹ӰԺ to elevate understanding about the human rights crisis that climate change represents and to urgently appeal for more ambitious efforts to address it. The HRCCs will play a key role as an aspirational and prescriptive living document, including specific commitments that governments at all levels, corporations and universities will be urged to make to prevent and minimize the harmful effects of climate change and address their impacts. The commitments will be periodically reviewed and updated to reflect the highest human rights standards and latest scientific information. 

“The Human Rights Climate Commitments are based on the human rights framework that establishes specific obligations and responsibilities to respect and protect human rights, including in the context of climate change,†said CU Distinguished Professor S. James Anaya, an expert in international law who is the RHRN summit steering committee chair and the former UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples. “What distinguishes the commitments is that multiple sectors are involved. The threat of climate change to our survival requires a concerted effort by all of us.†

At a news conference announcing the commitments, Ian Fry, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, stressed the importance of other sectors of society taking action.   

“The COP process is broken,†Fry said, calling out the United States and other Group of 20, or G-20 countries, for not financially helping poorer countries that are suffering from the impacts of climate change. “Recalcitrant countries like the US continue to undermine the basic human rights affected by climate change. So this is why we need important partnerships like the Right Here Right Now group. We need people to think outside the box who are not bound by autocratic governments like the US. We need collaboration between scientists, educators, cultural and industrial leaders to come together to address climate change. I commend the Right Here Right Now Alliance for its work in bringing us together and bringing together key influencers. Collectively, the alliance represents thousands of educational institutions and other organizations around the globe. We need these institutions to think beyond the bounds of the COP process.â€

Anaya painted a picture of what the HRCCs could look like.

“Imagine the impact if national governments across the developed world committed substantial funds for the damages and loss already suffered as a result of climate change, if cities broadly committed to targeted increases in green public transportation to reduce reliance on private vehicles, if business enterprises across sectors committed to science-based carbon emissions reduction targets, and if educational institutions at all levels committed to specific steps to build widespread knowledge about climate change and expertise to address it. These are the kind of proposed specific commitments that will be discussed and put forth at the Â鶹ӰԺ summit.â€

Anaya noted that multiple stakeholders will develop and revise the commitments, and a preliminary version of the commitments will be announced at the next COP in Dubai.

Since its launch in fall 2021 at COP26, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance has already emerged as the largest public-private partnership addressing climate change as a human rights issue, bringing together human rights experts, scientists, corporate leaders, nongovernmental organizations, academics, advocates and people around the globe in the fight for rights-based climate action to preserve a common future. In addition to the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit and the HRCCs, next year the alliance will introduce global initiatives with partners in sports, music, education and technology.

The alliance and upcoming summit has garnered support from celebrities that include Leonardo DiCaprio, Quincy Jones, Celine Dion, Cher, Jeff Bridges and Camila Cabello. The superstar coalition’s Right Here, Right Now COP27 Campaign in support of UN Human Rights aims to collectively reach a milestone of over a half billion people via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook followers.

Leonardo DiCaprio and the Right Here, Right Now Celebrity Coalition are backing United Nations Human Rights goals in an urgent message to world leaders via a social media blitz.

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New Right Here, Right Now global summit events focus on community impacts /globalclimatesummit/2022/11/03/new-right-here-right-now-global-summit-events-focus-community-impacts New Right Here, Right Now global summit events focus on community impacts Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/03/2022 - 06:00 Tags: Announcement

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Find a list of the Engage Locally Panel Series, categorized under areas of impact, obligations and responsibilities, and solutions

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Organizers of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit that CU Â鶹ӰԺ is co-hosting with United Nations Human Rights today announced a range of new, community-focused events.

Paired with the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit to be held Dec. 1–4, the newly announced Think Globally, Engage Locally Panel Series places the impact, obligations and solutions themes of the global summit into a national and local context.

These sessions enable the local community to engage with and discuss issues that more directly affect the city of Â鶹ӰԺ, the state, the West and the national conversation surrounding the impacts of a changing climate on our communities. Specifically, they focus on topics such as the role of the nation’s research universities in advancing climate solutions, bridging the political divide around climate change, and what’s next in youth climate advocacy. 

“These sessions give an even wider audience the ability to engage more deeply and in a localized way with the pressing global discussion around climate change and its impact on human rights,†CU Â鶹ӰԺ Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano said. “This is a prime example of thinking globally and acting locally.â€

While there are many livestream and some in-person opportunities to join the global climate summit, this new track of events provides easier access to community members and niche audiences, such as university and business leaders. Sessions will also be livestreamed.

Registration for the events is required.

Organizers of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit that CU Â鶹ӰԺ is co-hosting with United Nations Human Rights today announced a range of new, community-focused events.

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Global climate summit launches worldwide education coalition—find out how to join /globalclimatesummit/2022/09/21/global-climate-summit-launches-worldwide-education-coalition-find-out-how-join Global climate summit launches worldwide education coalition—find out how to join Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/21/2022 - 08:37 Tags: Announcement

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The Â鶹ӰԺ is proud to announce the launch of a worldwide education coalition in support of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, with the goal to broaden understanding of the human rights impacts of a changing global climate and galvanize people to take action.

The Dec. 1–4 summit is co-hosted by  and CU Â鶹ӰԺ, and will take place virtually and in person on the university’s Â鶹ӰԺ campus.

Learners and educators of all ages, from primary school classrooms to university research labs, are invited to engage in this landmark event through the new Right Here, Right Now Education Coalition. Participating institutions and individuals will receive free access to a coalition toolkit—including information on how to host watch parties and how to spread the word about the connection between human rights and climate change, and why that connection matters to everyone.

“Climate change is already having impacts that stretch far beyond the foothills of Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado,†said Heidi VanGenderen, CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s first chief sustainability officer and co-chair of the summit’s steering committee. “We want to give students of all ages a chance to learn and share their experiences through this event in classrooms and communities across the globe—which will, at the same time, help us to lower our own carbon footprint for the summit.â€

Right Here, Right Now Education Coalition partners include the ,  (ACE),  (AASHE), , , , the  and the  (UC3). Through this coalition, the summit is already connecting with thousands of educational institutions and related entities around the world.

To reach even more learners, departments, classes, clubs and people affiliated with educational institutions are encouraged to join the summit by watching events from their computers and phones—either live or through recordings. Many will organize “watch parties†on their campuses and in their communities to encourage conversations about the content of the summit and, just as important, the human rights-based climate solutions that emanate from its discussions.

Summit organizers are also developing climate education and summit-specific resources for educators and will share them with coalition members as they become available.

“The summit organizers want to thank our amazing partners,†VanGenderen said. “To solve the world’s climate crisis, young people from all nations need the chance to learn about how climate change is affecting their own communities. These organizations are helping to share those opportunities with the next generation of global leaders.â€

The summit will bring together thought leaders, youth activists, and scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry experts from around the world for keynote addresses and panels exploring how climate change impacts fundamental rights, including the right to food, safe water, housing and health. The event will include three keynote speakers and more than 30 other panelists and speakers from Colombia, Cameroon, Trinidad and beyond.

Departments, classes, clubs and people affiliated with educational institutions around the globe are invited to help spread awareness about the important connections between climate change and human rights, and to advocate for human rights-based climate action.

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South African activist Kumi Naidoo named keynote speaker /globalclimatesummit/2022/08/31/south-african-activist-kumi-naidoo-named-keynote-speaker South African activist Kumi Naidoo named keynote speaker Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/31/2022 - 07:52 Categories: Solutions Tags: Announcement Day 3 Keynote

Kumi Naidoo, a South African activist, Rhodes scholar and former executive director of Greenpeace International, will deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado.

Born in Durban, South Africa, in 1965, Naidoo has spent more than 40 years as a human rights and environmental activist. His activism has taken him from Greenland to the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, where he joined protests at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26. His life’s work emerged early: At age 15, Naidoo participated in school boycotts against apartheid, South Africa’s system of institutionalized racial oppression, for which he was expelled. After multiple arrests, Naidoo was forced to flee the country in the 1980s and lived in exile in the United Kingdom, where he earned a doctorate in political sociology from Oxford University.

Naidoo noted that he’s seen firsthand how young people can create positive change in the world. It was his own daughter, Naomi, who convinced him to get involved in the struggle against climate change.

“For a very long time and still today, it is young people who have been advocating for climate awareness and transformation because they are aware of what is at stake if drastic measures are not taken to address it,†Naidoo said. “However, the youth did not create this crisis, so I listened and learned from my daughter.â€

The Dec. 1–4 summit, co-hosted by and CU Â鶹ӰԺ, will bring to campus thought leaders, youth activists, and scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry experts from around the world for public keynote addresses and panels exploring how climate change impacts fundamental rights, including the right to food, safe water, housing and health.

“We are truly humbled to have Kumi Naidoo deliver a keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit,†said Seth Marder, director of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at CU Â鶹ӰԺ and one of three chairs of the summit’s steering committee. “Throughout his entire career, he has been a leading activist on human rights issues and brings a truly unique and holistic view to climate change as a human rights issue.â€

Marder said Naidoo will “challenge and inspire our global community to understand its responsibilities  and take action to address it.â€

Naidoo will join keynote speakers , former president of Ireland, and Indigenous rights leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier. More than 30 other speakers and panelists from Chile, Uganda, the Philippines and beyond will join the summit this December. Members of the public will be able to join via livestream. 

Naidoo said he wants to use his keynote speech to emphasize the urgent need for boldness on climate change.

“What we, as humanity, do in the next eight years will determine the type of future humanity will face,†Naidoo said. “Hopefully, the audience will be inspired to take bold action, get involved in fights for social and environmental justice, be creative, use all the tools they have available, and put pressure on leaders, governments, philanthropists and activists to act with greater urgency.â€

Naidoo, who returned to South Africa in 1990, led the process to formally register the African National Congress as a political party. He served as the international executive director of Greenpeace International from 2009 to 2016 and secretary general of Amnesty International from 2018 to 2020.

He is currently a senior advisor for the Community Arts Network (CAN), an organization that seeks to create social impact through the arts, and a special advisor to the Green Economy Coalition. He is professor of practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and continues to serve as a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity.

Kumi Naidoo, a South African activist, Rhodes scholar and former executive director of Greenpeace International, will deliver a keynote speech at this year’s Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado.

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Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panels, panelists announced  /globalclimatesummit/2022/07/12/right-here-right-now-global-climate-summit-panels-panelists-announced%C2%A0 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panels, panelists announced  Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/12/2022 - 08:26 Tags: Announcement

Leading Indigenous voices on climate change and human rights. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment. The vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and the 2020 TIME Magazine Kid of the Year. 

These are among the who have confirmed their participation in the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit to be based on the Â鶹ӰԺ campus December 1-4, 2022. 

Other high profile participants include keynote speakers , former president of Ireland and well-known climate justice advocate, and , indigenous rights leader and Nobel Prize nominee. 

is designed to engage human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry leaders to commit to specific goals that will help to slow climate change and address its adverse effects on human rights. 

“We are thrilled to be able to bring together phenomenal thought leaders and experts from a variety of global sectors for the first Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit,†Chancellor Philip DiStefano said. “We are eager to hear from so many esteemed, diverse voices as we discuss and commit to solutions that will address the ravaging effects of climate change on vulnerable populations around the world.â€

In partnership with UN Human Rights, CU Â鶹ӰԺ is co-hosting the event as part of its comprehensive public research mission and global leadership in research related to the environment, behavioral sciences and issues related to human rights.

The first . For instance, “Climate Change as a Matter of Human Rights,†will explore the effects of climate change on the rights to life, health, culture, self-determination, development, food, water and sanitation, housing and a healthy environment. Panelists will also discuss the features of a human rights-based approach to climate action. 

The related to climate change. David Boyd, UN special rapporteur on human rights and environment, will be on a panel about the obligations of governments arising from the human rights impacts of climate change. Business will also emerge as a focal point on the second day with the panel “The Climate Change Responsibilities of Business and Industry.†

are also shaping up for a session on the role of education in building a global culture of knowledge and inquiry about climate change, its human rights impacts and solutions. A featured panelist is Gitanjali Rao, youth science prodigy and TIME Magazine Kid of the Year.

The and addresses the question: How should governments address the impacts of climate change on those most vulnerable? Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is on a panel about how governments should address the impact of climate change for the most vulnerable. 

A panel on youth and climate justice will explore how global society, including governments, should factor in the human rights of future generations in developing solutions to climate change, especially from the perspective of youth. 

The on traditional knowledge and climate solutions. 

Over centuries, indigenous peoples and others have developed a wealth of knowledge related to the natural environments where they live. Under international human rights law, indigenous peoples have specific rights related to their traditional knowledge. This panel will explore how this knowledge can be brought to bear, along with Western science and technological approaches, in developing sustainable and widely deployable solutions to climate change. 

Additional will be announced as they are confirmed. 

Leading Indigenous voices on climate change and human rights. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment. The vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and the 2020 TIME Magazine Kid of the Year. 

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