Coloradan Conversations: Climate Change and Its Impact on Human Rights

From increasing droughts and wildfires to polluted air and deforestation, natural disasters have an enormous impact on humans, including Indigenous ways of life. Inspired by a recent story collection in the听Coloradan听鈥� 鈥溾€� 鈥� CU experts and faculty shared insights and research at听Coloradan Conversations: Climate Change and Its Impact听on Human Rights. Be inspired to take action with resources from our speakers.

Happening at CU Boulder

As a global leader in climate, environmental and energy research, the University of Colorado Boulder is proud to partner with United Nations Human Rights to co-host the听Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit听in December 2022.

The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC)听is dedicated to confronting the climate crisis by creatively communicating and changing human behavior. We have a听chance to come together to solve the greatest challenge of our generation and create a better future.听You can听that supports research, practice and policy innovations that focus on confronting the climate crisis via creative communication and changing human behavior.

The Center of Native American and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) promotes collaborative research focusing on both local and global indigenous knowledge. You can that contributes to CNAIS's research and programming or听directly funds Native American students' education. CNAIS also promotes that allows you to take advantage of the diversity of research and teaching on Indigenous topics at CU Boulder.

Clint Carroll

Clint Carroll will present on 鈥淩ights and Responsibilities: Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and the Public University,鈥� which addresses Indigenous knowledge systems and their ethical frameworks of relationality that offer the world new approaches for addressing the climate crisis and underscoring the rights of the earth and all life. Carroll is an associate professor of ethnic studies at CU Boulder. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works closely with Cherokee people in Oklahoma on issues of land conservation and the perpetuation of land-based knowledge and ways of life.听

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Phaedra Pezzullo听

Phaedra Pezzullo will discuss how plastic became the fossil fuel industry鈥檚 Plan B and why, if you care about human rights and climate change, you should be paying attention to local, state and international plastics regulations. Pezzullo is an associate professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Media, Communication and Information at CU Boulder, as well as an associate faculty of environmental studies and affiliate faculty of media studies. Internationally known for her interdisciplinary expertise in the humanities and sciences 鈥� with a focus on environmental communication and climate justice 鈥� she is founding co-director of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change and the Just Transition Collaborative.听

Emily Yeh

Emily Yeh will highlight how climate change impacts Tibetan pastoralists and the ways 鈥渁daptation鈥� can become another form of dispossession and further marginalization. Yeh is a professor of geography at CU Boulder and conducts research on nature-society relations in Tibetan parts of the People鈥檚 Republic of China, including projects on conflicts over access to natural resources, the relationship between ideologies of nature and nationality, the political ecology of pastoral environment and development policies, and emerging environmental subjectivities. In 2015, Yeh was awarded the E. Gene Smith Prize for best book on Inner Asia from the Association of Asian Studies for her book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013).

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