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...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier giving her keynote address

Climate solutions lie in ‘country food’ 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’t eat brand-name soup.

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 Boulder, 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

Elham Youssefian

Elham Youssefian joined the International Disability Alliance (IDA) Secretariat in November 2019 as the inclusive humanitarian action and DRR advisor.

Lakshmi Singh

Lakshmi Singh

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

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.

Nahla Haidar

Nahla Haidar

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

Astrid Puentes Riaño

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

Fishing boats on beach in Senegal

Impacts in Africa: ‘What do we see most at sea? Plastics everywhere.’

Plastic waste has become a consistent pollution and threat of the 21st century, affecting public health, livelihoods and our natural environment.

Destruction and damage by Typhoon Haiyan November 23, 2013 in Tacloban, Philippines.

Impacts in Asia: ‘We are being deprived of our basic human rights.’

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.

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