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Seven sponsors have joined the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit to be held Dec. 1–4 at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Part of the Engage Locally Series at the campus's global climate summit, join Rep. Joe Neguse and leading climate policy advocates in a discussion of how to achieve the climate policy that will bring real change to communities.

Mitigating climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions this decade will require big transitions in all sectors, from energy and transportation to construction and industry. But significant reductions in global emissions are possible, experts say.

With the planet already warming, technical fixes to addressing a changing climate are important, experts say, but they can only get us so far. We need social fixes, too.

At the global climate summit next month, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience and working with an educator's guide created at CU Boulder to help their students understand how climate change is impacting people and communities and how they can help. Participating teachers may apply for graduate credit and a stipend—deadline Nov. 16.

At the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance—an international initiative supported by CU Boulder and others—announced the Human Rights Climate Commitments. The first draft of the commitments will be an outcome of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus Dec. 1–4.

Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on how the law can be used to address the negative impacts of climate change on human rights around the world.

Organizers of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit have announced a range of community-focused events. The new Think Globally, Engage Locally Panel Series places the impact, obligations and solutions themes of the global summit into a national and local context.

Four CU Boulder faculty will join representatives from 197 countries and hundreds of activists, scientists and industry representatives in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to contribute insights on the impact of climate change on human rights, the importance of forest conservation and trends in climate change communication.

Poor communities and developing countries are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme weather and changing environments. As the costs of global climate action add up, there is growing consensus that the world’s polluters should foot most of the bill. Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.