Hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder and United Nations Human Rights, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit has just kicked off in Boulder with a powerful keynote address from Indigenous rights and health advocate, Sheila Watt-Cloutier.
Our Impact Director, Kera Sherwood-O’Regan, joins Indigenous social development specialist, Edna Kaptoyo; President Emeritus of the Center for International Environmental Law, Professor Dan Magraw; Environment and Human Rights lawyer, Astrid Puentes Riaño; and Tebtebba founder and former Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz for the opening panel Understanding Climate Change as a Matter of Human Rights, moderated by Time magazine Senior Correspondent, Justin Worland.
Speaking on the intersecting systems of oppression that produce climate change and harm communities, Kera uses her table-top analogy to highlight how meaningful solutions to climate change must address root causes, and in doing so can create positive outcomes not only for the environment, but for human rights as well.