The Global Climate Summit To Be Hosted By Oxford University & UNHCR Will Set A New Benchmark In Climate Justice

The University of Oxford and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will host the—’2025 Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit’.

The summit will bring together renowned experts and leaders, policymakers, technologists, academics, universities, celebrities, and many others to promote climate justice through human rights solutions to the climate crisis.

The ‘Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit’ will be held in Oxford from 4th-7th June 2025, in conjunction with participating universities around the world being convened by the International Universities Climate Alliance.

The announcement was made by Professor Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, as she hosted Elisa Morgera, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change, Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, and representatives from UN Human Rights.

The Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit—which will be hosted by the University of Oxford and UN Human Rights aims to set a new benchmark in the global fight for climate justice with a forum designed to address the following objectives:

• Advance human-rights solutions to the climate crisis

• Celebrate and elevate the voices of environmental human-rights defenders

• Reinforce and bring together key elements of the global climate-justice movement while minimizing carbon footprint

• Empower and inspire people, especially students, as agents for climate justice now, and in future careers

The Oxford, Academic Partner of ‘Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance’, will also coordinate with universities around the world in hosting climate-related programs over four days.

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Announcing the event, Professor Irene Tracey Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford said:

‘With our well-established and world-leading expertise in climate-related research and teaching, the University of Oxford is proud to be the Academic Partner for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to host this pivotal summit with UN Human Rights, bringing together leaders in human rights and climate research from around the world, across a wide range of disciplines with the common goal of finding solutions to one of the most pressing issues of our times, climate change.’

Hosting Universities:

The main event of the summit, a 24-hour global plenary, coordinated by International Universities Climate Alliance, will be co-hosted by the University of Oxford, University of Cape Town, University of Colorado Boulder, Monash University, University of Nairobi, University of São Paulo, UNSW Sydney and more, and will include live and virtual lectures, keynote speeches, and panel discussions.

Academic institutions around the world will transform into hubs of climate consciousness, hosting ‘watch parties’ and local co-host activities, uniting their communities in this historic exchange of ideas.