Environment  December 2, 2022

UN Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit: Climate change and human rights

Justin Worland, left, moderates the panel discussion on Understanding Climate Change as a Matter of Human Rights at the Right Here Right Now Climate Summit at the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center on the CU Boulder campus on Dec. 2, 2022. Panel members starting second from left: Dan McGraw, Astrid Puentes Riaño, and Kera Sherwood-O’Regan. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)
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BOULDER — Climate change isn’t merely a phenomenon that disrupts our physical world; it’s a problem with broad human impacts that often most negatively affects those who bear the least responsibility for its causes.

Governments, powerful institutions and corporations around the world are hesitant to make the link between human rights and climate change, said Center for International Environmental Law president emeritus Dan Magraw, which is why he and fellow advocates are gathered this week at the University of Colorado for the United Nations’ Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.

“If we are not visible, our needs are not put on…

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A Maryland native, Lucas has worked at news agencies from Wyoming to South Carolina before putting roots down in Colorado.
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