The artworks in this exhibition were made by students, entirely from recycled cardboard and discarded materials, to highlight the human rights issues caused by the climate crisis. Using old clothes, plastic bottle caps, fruit packaging, ribbons, and leftover craft supplies, students turned waste into art. Rather than treating climate change as an environmental problem alone, these works look for the human stories behind it.

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Climate refugees who lose their homes, women who must give up education to support families as extreme weather destroys their livelihoods, and workers exposed to dangerous conditions — all of these are human rights issues. Through their cardboard art, students say that beyond climate, there are people. Each piece speaks to dignity, survival, equity, and the everyday lives of the communities hit hardest by climate change.

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The exhibition asks viewers to rethink climate action — not as an abstract environmental task, but as a responsibility to protect human rights. It brings attention back to the people often left out of the climate conversation and leaves visitors with one question: “Is our climate action truly for people?”