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10 things to do this week: Breakfast for dinner, therapy dogs, more

Dec. 5, 2022

This week brings guided meditation, interview tips, rest stations, women鈥檚 basketball, internship tips, zen meditation, swag bags, breakfast for dinner and more.

Panelist Ewi Stephanie Lamma addresses the audience during the Developing Climate Solutions with the Human Rights of Future Generations in Mind panel in the Glenn Miller Ballroom as part of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit at the 羞羞视频. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)

Youth, women at center of climate change fight

Dec. 4, 2022

Four panelists at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, all young women, expressed the same sentiment: Women and youth are most burdened by climate change, but they are also key to solutions needed now.

Audience members listen to keynote speaker Kumi Naidoo as he provides the keynote speech on the third day of the Right Here Right Now Climate Summit at the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center on the CU 羞羞视频 campus on Dec. 4, 2022. Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado)

4 key ways to address the climate crisis now

Dec. 4, 2022

Day three of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate summit at CU 羞羞视频 was filled with discussions of concrete solutions and urgent calls for collective action to reduce the human toll of the climate crisis today and fend off a catastrophic future.

Kumi Naidoo, South African-born human rights and climate activist, provides the keynote speech on the third day of the Right Here Right Now Climate Summit at the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center on the CU 羞羞视频 campus on Dec. 4, 2022. Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado)

Kumi Naidoo resists 鈥榗limate apartheid,鈥� calls for more voices, joy to address climate change

Dec. 4, 2022

During a presentation that conjured reflections from Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Matt Damon, Cree elders, and the late South African rapper Riky Rick, Naidoo called for a new kind of collective action to push back on what he calls 鈥渃limate apartheid鈥濃�攐ne that includes more voices, communicates more clearly and even incorporates a little joy.

Deion Sanders (Coach Prime), smiles during a humorous moment during the press conference announcing his hiring as University of Colorado football team脮s 28th head coach at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field on December 4, 2022. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

Deion 鈥楥oach Prime鈥� Sanders makes debut as CU鈥檚 head football coach

Dec. 4, 2022

Just before midnight on Saturday night at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, more than a dozen football fans joined news crews waiting for the arrival of the next era for University of Colorado Buffaloes football. Later at a press conference, Deion 鈥淐oach Prime鈥� Sanders was welcomed by many more.

Caitlyn Kim, CPR Washington, D.C.-based public affairs reporter, left, introduces the members of panel 4 of the Engage Locally series: Achieving Effective Climate Policy: How Do We Bridge the Political Divide?on the second day of the Right Here Right Now Climate Summit at the auditorium of the CASE building on the CU 羞羞视频 campus on Dec. 3, 2022. From second from left: Joe Neguse, US Congressman, Jameka Hodnett, Green for All campaign director, Dream.org; and Chris Barnard, national policy director, Amer

3 ways to hold government, industry accountable for addressing climate change

Dec. 3, 2022

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.

Youth activists with Mary Robinson

Women need to lead next phase of climate justice movement, Mary Robinson says

Dec. 3, 2022

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.

Panelists Robert C. Robbins, Joan T.A. Gabel, Kristina M. Johnson, and Philip P. DiStefano discuss the research, innovation, education and public engagement efforts needed to accelerate climate solutions that respond to the needs of individuals and communities, and show respect for human rights.

6 ways universities can address climate change, boost resilience

Dec. 2, 2022

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.

A guest takes a smartphone photos of the panel discussion (1.2) on the Experiences of Those Whose Human Rights Are Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change at the Right Here Right Now Climate Summit at the Glenn Miller Ballroom in the University Memorial Center on the CU 羞羞视频 campus on Dec. 2, 2022. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

90 countries represented in first day of global climate summit focused on human rights

Dec. 2, 2022

Nearly 4,000 people from 90 countries convened at CU 羞羞视频, 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.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, global advocate for indigenous rights and health, and a leader focused on the impact of climate change on human rights, gives her keynote address at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, in the Glenn Miller Ballroom. Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado)

Climate solutions lie in 鈥榗ountry food鈥� and Indigenous knowledge, Sheila Watt-Cloutier says

Dec. 2, 2022

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.

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