2022 GLOBAL CLIMATE SUMMIT

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United Nations Human Rights and the University of Colorado Boulder co-hosted the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on Dec. 1-4, an international conference highlighting the relationship between climate change and human rights. Panelists from all over the world spoke about the impacts of climate change and potential solutions. With participants from over 100 countries, the Summit was a first-of-its-kind, in-person and virtual event that represented more than 2,300 universities in the burgeoning Right Here, Right Now Education Coalition.

 

By gathering some of the world’s foremost human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry leaders, the summit advanced the Right Here, Right Now - Human Rights Climate Commitments, a framework inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The international framework being drafted by UN Human Rights and the University of Colorado Boulder will be unveiled at COP 28 in Dubai as an appeal for the 193 Member States of the United Nations, and other duty-bearers worldwide to fast-track help for people in vulnerable situations.

Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights opens the 2022 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

2022 SUMMIT

Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and President of Ireland speaks during Summit.

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