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When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family’s chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.

Pasang Dolma Sherpa cherishes any time she can spend in Nepal’s mountainous region, where she grew up in a Sherpa village. But the scenery has changed significantly. Learn about Dolma Sherpa, one of several panelists at the campus's Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit in December.

For Yeb Saño, the effects of climate change became tragically clearer on Nov. 8, 2013, when Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Southeast Asia. Learn more about Saño, a panelist at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, and the experiences that shaped him.

CU Boulder 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.

Millions of people don’t think twice when turning on the tap, but Indigenous activist and Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist Tia Kennedy never takes a glass of water for granted. As a member of both the Oneida Nation of the Thames and Walpole Island First Nation, her connection to water is ancient. Learn more about Kennedy and how to get involved in the summit.

Registration is now open for virtual and in-person attendance at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit. The first-of-its-kind summit will bring thought leaders, youth activists, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry experts from around the world to campus.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier made a bold move and helped kick-start what many describe as a sea change in how the international community thinks about climate change.

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. The summit will be co-hosted by CU Boulder and United Nations Human Rights.

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 and the 2020 TIME Magazine Kid of the Year—these are among the 33 panelists who have confirmed their participation in the inaugural Global Climate Summit this fall.

The Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, Dec. 1–4, promises to highlight the commitment of CU Boulder and the city of Boulder to take human rights-based climate action.