2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
June 4th - 7th
A Historic Turning Point for Climate Justice
On June 5th, World Environment Day, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit launched the largest climate justice gathering of its kind. Hosted by UN Human Rights and the University of Oxford, with co-host universities across the globe, the summit featured a 24-hour global livestream connecting continents in a unified call to action.
Pictured at right,
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk
addresses a
worldwide audience live from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre. Alongside the broadcast, Oxford hosted 38 local events, with parallel programs unfolding at partner universities worldwide. The message was unmistakable:
climate change is a human rights crisis.
"In 2021, we launched the Right Here Right Now Global Climate Alliance at the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow , with the support of artists such as Quincy Jones, Camila Cabello, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Since then, it has emerged as a leading climate justice initiative focused on advancing rights-based climate action.
Right Here, Right Now identifies climate change as the biggest challenge of our time, the human rights crisis that it is – one that requires rights-based solutions; and it seeks to reach and influence people across sectors including technology, education, sport, social-media, art, music, and more.”
Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
ABOUT
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance
(RHRN) is a multi-stakeholder movement driven by universities and youth, to help the world align climate action with human rights obligations. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this rights-based climate action will enhance outcomes and their sustainability, reduce trade-offs, support transformative change and advance climate resilient development. By reframing climate change as the fundamental human rights crisis that leading scientists and human rights advocates, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have declared it to be, RHRN promotes human rights as a powerful tool to help address the climate crisis.
Since Right Here, Right Now was launched at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow Scotland (COP26) by United Nations Human Rights and supporters that included Leonardo DiCaprio, Quincy Jones and Camila Cabello, Right Here, Right Now has emerged as the largest public/private climate partnerships in the world.
This global movement works with governments, policy-makers, persons affected by climate change, NGOs, foundations, businesses, academics, scientists, technologists, and influencers that include celebrities, athletes, and artists, to fight climate change to preserve our common future.
Climate Change is a Human Rights Crisis
Right Here, Right Now humanizes the climate crisis by reframing it as the fundamental human rights crisis it is, as women, children, minorities, the poor and marginalized will continue to suffer the most as the climate catastrophe escalates.
Right Here, Right Now, its global partner United Nations Human Rights, and academic partner the University of Oxford, are committed to promoting, protecting, and advancing the rights of people around the world suffering from the devastating effects of climate change, starting with persons and communities already in disadvantageous situations owing to geography, poverty, gender, age, disability, cultural or ethnic background, among others, that have historically contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions.
The 2023 Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states: Actions that prioritize equity, climate justice, social justice and inclusion lead to more sustainable outcomes, co-benefits, reduce trade-offs, support transformative change and advance climate resilient development. Adaptation responses are immediately needed to reduce rising climate risks, especially for the most vulnerable. Equity, inclusion and just transitions are key to progress on adaptation and deeper societal ambitions for accelerated mitigation.
GLOBAL INITIATIVES
Right Here, Right Now has adopted a treetop to grass-roots approach to advocacy and awareness building by reaching out to world leaders, to average citizens, and everyone in between.
Understanding that an “all hands on deck” approach is needed to meet the unprecedented challenge posed by climate change, Right Here, Right Now works with best-in-class partners to create initiatives around the world related to Art, Celebrities, Education, Music, Policy, Social Media, Sport, Tech and Youth. Strategic Partners include IBM, Boston Consulting Group, Techstars, Recording Academy and Acterra.
Right Here, Right Now, its global partner United Nations Human Rights, and academic partner the University of Oxford, support effective, human rights-based implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change. In addition, all initiatives support the Right Here, Right Now Human Rights Climate Commitments.
