"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, and the late Quincy Jones, Right Here, Right Now has emerged as the largest climate justice initiative in the world of its kind.
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.
University of Oxford

University of Oxford is the Academic Partner for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance.
The University of Oxford stands as the most prestigious and oldest university in the English-speaking world, with a legacy of excellence that spans nearly a millennium. Renowned for its intellectual rigor, groundbreaking research, and global influence, Oxford continues to shape the world’s most critical conversations - from science and technology to philosophy, policy, and justice. With a student body drawn from over 160 countries and a network of 45 colleges and halls, Oxford is not just a symbol of academic distinction - it is a crucible of ideas, innovation, and leadership that transcends borders.
As the global academic partner of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance, Oxford brings unmatched scholarly authority, intergenerational credibility, and convening power to a movement that is fundamentally driven by youth, universities, and the urgent moral imperative of climate justice. Rooted in centuries of tradition yet unafraid to challenge convention, Oxford is uniquely equipped to help lead this global alliance with the United Nations - bridging the worlds of policy and protest, science and storytelling, to ensure that the voices of the next generation are not only heard, but heeded.
2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
The 2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit (June 2-8, 2025) marked a significant milestone - becoming the largest climate justice gathering of its kind. Co-hosted by United Nations Human Rights and the University of Oxford, alongside leading academic institutions on six continents, the summit brought the world together in an unprecedented call for rights-based climate action.
A live global broadcast from Oxford’s storied Sheldonian Theatre was anchored by a landmark address from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk (pictured at left), who affirmed that climate change is the defining human rights crisis of our time.
During the summit, Oxford hosted 38 events, while others unfolded in parallel at universities worldwide. The summit mobilized an unprecedented range of voices - from scientists and legal scholars to artists, youth leaders, and frontline advocates - and was amplified by extraordinary public engagement.
Global luminaries including Neil Young, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Billie Jean King, Jack Black, Annie Lennox, Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews, Minnie Driver, Jeremy Irons, Chelsea Handler, Pierce Brosnan, and many more lent their voices to the movement, extending its reach to tens of millions, underscoring the urgent, shared fight for climate justice.
2022 Right Here, Right Now
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. The summit featured the former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Mary Robinson (pictured at right),
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 2025
On June 5, 2025—World Environment Day—the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance and global partner United Nations Human Rights and academic partner, the University of Oxford launched a powerful new Cause Flash to support the landmark Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, the largest climate justice gathering of its kind.
This global social media campaign mobilized celebrities, activists, and institutions across continents to spotlight the urgent truth: climate change is the defining human rights crisis of our time.
Timed with a 24-hour livestream from Oxford’s historic Sheldonian Theatre and supported by a chorus of international voices, the Cause Flash ignited digital platforms worldwide—making climate justice impossible to ignore.
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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.
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