The Common Reading Program will host a watch party on Friday, Dec. 2, in CUE 518 on the Pullman campus for the livestream of Day 1 of the Global Climate Summit being hosted by the United Nations at the University of Colorado Boulder. Friday’s events will frame climate change within the context of human rights: how the most vulnerable people and populations experience the most extreme effects of climate change, resulting in loss of land, livelihood, and universal human rights.
The events being livestreamed are the opening session at 8 a.m.; a panel on “Understanding Climate Change as a Matter of Human Rights” moderated by TIME magazine senior correspondent Justin Worland at 9:15 a.m.; a keynote by Indigenous activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier at 1 p.m.; and a panel on “Experiences of Those Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change” at 3 p.m. Students who attend for a minimum of 30 minutes will be logged in for Common Reading credit. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
This event complements use of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” as the WSU Common Reading book for 2022–23. More about the program and events can be found at CommonReading.wsu.edu.
