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...

Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo resists ‘climate apartheid,’ calls for more voices, joy to address climate change

Dec. 4, 2022

In keynote address on Sunday, South African-born Kumi Naidoo stressed the need for a “mantle of leadership†among all people as humanity works to address climate change, with a more inclusive, collective approach.

Panelist at the Youth Climate panel session at RHRN Summit

4 key ways to address the climate crisis now

Dec. 4, 2022

Day three of the Right Here Right Now Global Climate summit at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder was filled with discussions of concrete solutions and urgent calls for collective action to reduce the human toll of the climate crisis today and to fend off a catastrophic future. To get there, panelists and speakers...

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Cristina Coc

Cristina Coc

The Julian Cho Society (JCS), founded by Cristina Coc, is dedicated to the conservation of the environments and rights of Indigenous peoples of southern Belize.

Constance Okollet

Constance Okollet

Constance Okollet is the chair of the Osukuru United Women’s Network (OWN) in the Tororo district of eastern Uganda, and is a self-described peasant farmer and mother of seven.

Kishore Rao

Kishore Rao

Kishore Rao is Deloitte’s global consulting sustainability and climate leader, focused on government and public sector clients.

Tristan Ahtone

Tristan Ahtone

Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor at large at Grist.

Steve Baragona

Steve Baragona

Steve Baragona is an award-winning multimedia journalist covering science, environment and health for Voice of America (VOA).

Elena Sánchez Nicolás

Elena Sánchez Nicolás

Elena Sánchez Nicolás covers institutional affairs, climate change, energy and tech policy for EUobserver.

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