RASEI Engagement at the United Nations Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit

The United Nations Human Rights Committee and CU Boulder Co-hosted the 2022 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit. The aim of this conference was to bring light to the interconnectedness of human rights and climate change. By gathering some of the world's foremost human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural, and industrial leaders, the conference addressed these issues and tasked the participants with establishing specific action items that will provide approaches to combat the harmful effects of climate change on human rights.

Convening Global Experts

December 1-4, 2022

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Five RASEI Fellows were members of the summits organizing committee and worked for over a year, helping to craft an engaging and informative program and bring together partners and stakeholders to participate in this vital and critical discussion. You can find out more about all of the keynote sessions and activities that were part of this summit at the links on this page, in particular we highlight the events that RASEI members were central to the organization of.

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Find out more about the Organizing Committee

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This book, titled “Clean Energy Innovators: NREL People Working to Change the World”, features the work of a number of RASEI Fellows. Written by Ernie Tucker, and published in June of 2022, it adopts a focus on the human-interest aspect of the critical work being done at NREL.

Collecting together stories and snapshots that were spread across newspapers and magazines, and digging deeper into profiles of different NREL members, this book puts together a collection of perspectives. This isn’t a history or NREL, instead it is insights and thoughts from the people who built NREL. 

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Download the Report

Modeling has shown that if the world stops burning fossil fuels, we can avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Transitioning our energy system from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy sources provides a host of benefits beyond addressing climate change.

Reductions in air pollution, improved social equity, increasing the number of good-paying jobs and boosting the economy are all possible. This report, co-authored by RASEI Fellows Jeff Logan and Chuck Kutscher, explores what this transition looks like, the benefits and opportunities of making this change, and mechanisms that can be used to accelerate this global transformation.

The executive summary, 15 pages long, provides a great introduction to the challenges, solutions, and opportunities to this complex and crucial problem. 

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