"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 focussed 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
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Global Climate Alliance
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 climate justice initiative 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.
Global Academic Partner
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is the academic partner of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance and host of the 2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with United Nations Human Rights. The University of Oxford has been placed number 1 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the seventh year running.
Oxford is world famous for research and teaching excellence and home to some of the most talented people from across the globe. Their work helps the lives of millions, solving real-world problems through a huge network of partnerships and collaborations.
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Global Climate Summit
Co-hosted by United Nations Human Rights and the University of Colorado, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit was staged from Dec. 1-4, spotlighting the profound ties between climate change and human rights. Voices from around the globe shared firsthand insights into climate impacts and explored pathways for action. Drawing participants from over 100 countries, this groundbreaking hybrid event united more than 2,300 universities in the growing Right Here, Right Now Education Coalition.
Bringing together some of the world’s most prominent human rights, scientific, political, educational, cultural, and industry leaders, the summit forged the Right Here, Right Now Human Rights Climate Commitments - a framework grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This international commitment was announced at COP 28 in Dubai, calling on the 193 Member States of the United Nations and other global leaders to urgently prioritize aid for people in the most vulnerable situations.
Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights opens the 2022 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit.
Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and President of Ireland speaks during Summit.
United Nations Human Rights
United Nations Human Rights has a unique mandate from the international community to promote and protect human rights for all - everywhere. Fighting climate change is at the very heart of their mandate. Climate change already negatively affects the human rights of millions of people around the world – human rights such as those to food, water, housing, health, decent work, development and even life itself. Climate change is not just an environmental issue – it is a human rights crisis bearing down hardest on the poor and marginalized.
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CAUSE FLASH 2023
The Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance and global partner United Nations Human Rights launched COP28 in Dubai on November 30, 2023, with a celebrity driven Cause Flash that commemorated the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by promoting climate changes as the human rights crisis it is. The Cause Flash results were announced to the media at the Right Here, Right Now Press Conference held on December 8th at COP28.
