From increasing droughts and wildfires to polluted air and deforestation, natural disasters have an enormous impact on humans, including Indigenous ways of life. CU faculty shared insights and research at a recent event read three key takeaways.
Registration is now open for virtual attendance at the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit. The first-of-its-kind summit will bring thought leaders, youth activists, scientific, political, educational, cultural and industry experts from around the world to campus.
On Dec. 7, 2005, Canadian-born mother and grandmother Sheila Watt-Cloutier filed a 163-page petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that the impacts of climate change violated the “fundamental human rights” of Indigenous Inuit people like her across the Arctic.