Climate & Environment
Speaking to the packed room on her birthday, Sheila Watt-Cloutier quipped that when many people living in the United States think about the Arctic, their minds go to a hallmark of capitalism: soda commercials—the ones where polar bears frolic with seals on the ice.
On the first day of the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at CU Â鶹ӰԺ, local leaders focused on local community impacts of climate change in an adjacent track of panels.
Mitigating climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions this decade will require big transitions in all sectors, from energy and transportation to construction and industry. But significant reductions in global emissions are possible, experts say.
Clint Carroll, associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, studies Cherokee access to gathering wild plants and land use management, and tends to the land in his own backyard.
With the planet already warming, technical fixes to addressing a changing climate are important, experts say, but they can only get us so far. We need social fixes, too.
In the book "Homo Ecophagus," a physician with CU Â鶹ӰԺ ties sees humanity devouring itself—and the planet.
From COP27 stage, CU Â鶹ӰԺ, climate alliance, UN Human Rights announce development of commitmentsAt the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance—an international initiative supported by CU Â鶹ӰԺ and others—announced the Human Rights Climate Commitments. The first draft of the commitments will be an outcome of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus Dec. 1–4.
Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on how the law can be used to address the negative impacts of climate change on human rights around the world.
Assistant Professor Matt Burgess discusses the political polarization of climate change and efforts to reduce it, as voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections.
A $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers to better understand how complex species interactions affect natural ecosystems.