After an at-times emotional first day of the summit Friday, in which panelists from around the globe made the undeniable case that climate change is a humanitarian crisis, speakers on Day 2 focused on accountability, called for action and suggested that a human rights framing is precisely what鈥檚 needed to spark action.
On the second day of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, keynote speaker and former Irish President Mary Robinson took the stage to get people riled up and excited about making change on the climate change front through women-led efforts, such as Project Dandelion.
From groundbreaking research to community engagement to optimizing their own operations, universities are positioned to play a leading role in addressing the human rights crisis of climate change鈥揵oth globally and locally.
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鈥檛 talked about enough: how climate change impacts people鈥檚 lives right now.
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鈥攖he 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 Boulder, local leaders focused on local community impacts of climate change in an adjacent track of panels.
At the Boulder Faculty Assembly meeting Thursday, Provost Russell Moore discussed support of the possibility of instructors having the option to move their contracts to 12 months instead of 9 months; a unified approach to instructor promotion raises; supporting Iranian faculty, staff and students; and more.
At a sold-out talk, Robin Wall Kimmerer discussed the importance of tapping Indigenous knowledge 鈥渘ot so that we can go back to some imagined past but so we can go forward together and find solutions that are not embedded only by the Western worldview.鈥�
A panel of CU Boulder and local municipal government leaders agreed there are a variety of actions U.S. citizens can take to support the current protests in Iran鈥攑rimarily by listening to and following the lead of the Iranian people themselves.
Neuroscientists at CU Boulder have discovered that a specific type of brain cell could be a key player in making you feel the negative impacts of stress.
