Design4Climate in the streets of Milan - Day Two

Vox Pop Design4Climate - Day Two

Is Design important for a sustainable world? We took the question to the Italian streets of Milan to listen its citizens. Here are the answers!

Design4Climate in the streets of Milan - Day One

Vox Pop Design4Climate - Day One

Is Design important for a sustainable world? We took the question to the Italian streets of Milan to listen its citizens. Here are the answers!

Opening of Design4Climate Action at Milan Design Week with Carlo Ratti

Five years after its first engagement with the design industry the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate global partnership program returns to Milan Design Week 2018 to highlight positive solutions.

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Deauville Green Awards: Film as a potent agent to put a spotlight on sustainable development
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Films have an undoubted power to put spectators right into different situations and environments, and actualities such as climate change can be perceived in a more realistic way waking up collective consciences to act on crucial challenges facing humanity. Deauville Green Awards acknowledged the power of film, and since 2012 has been an active player in showcasing and awarding the best-submitted films on sustainability.

“Films are the best way to capture the attention of various audiences, share information with them, and generate deep emotions. In a post-factual era where everyone is constantly confronted to hundreds of messages and signals, scientific messages or green content must benefit from the strength and impact potential of films and audio-visual communication.”

Jonathan Peynet, Coordinator, Deauville Green Awards

Jonathan Peynet, Coordinator, Deauville Green Awards

Deauville Green Awards has three core competitions - SPOT, the Grand Prix for the best public awareness campaign; INFO, the Grand Prix for the best corporate film; and DOCU, the Grand Prix for the best documentary film. Within each of the competitions, 14 thematic categories cover specific fields on sustainability, eco-innovations, and social responsibility.

Submit your ad, film, or documentary until April 27

Connect4Climate’s Program Manager Giulia Braga is a jury member for the SPOT - Short Awareness Messages competition. Connect4Climate has been committed to promoting more exposure to climate and sustainability issues in both the content and production of films under its Film4Climate banner.

 

Deauville Green Awards

Photo Credit: Deauville Green Awards

Each year, almost 500 films from 50 different countries are submitted to Deauville Green Awards. Companies, institutions, NGOs, and communities have then the chance to promote good practices in a hope to offer a more sustainable, fairer world to future generations. The impressive number of films submitted show the “growing importance of environmental issues in the public space worldwide and reveal the key role of image and film in the communication on sustainability," Jonathan Peynet states.

“More and more people worldwide, filmmakers or fellow citizens like you and me, are disappointed by the lack of action to protect our planet and realized they have the tools to spread the word,” Peynet.

This year’s Deauville Green Awards will take place on June 19-20 in Deauville, France. “We expect hundreds of inspiring films from all over the world, interesting debates around Water following up on the World Water Forum in Brasília, many free screenings for kids, and an exceptional figurehead, the world famous North and South Pole explorer Jean-Louis Etienne,” Peynet added.

The deadline to register your green ad, corporate film, or documentary ends this Friday, April 27.

Banner and thumbnail photo credit to Deauville Green Awards

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DS Virgin Racing Formula E team set to become carbon neutral thanks to partnership with the Carbon Trust
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The Carbon Trust has partnered with DS Virgin Racing team to help them take the necessary steps to make their core operations carbon neutral. This commitment will also be complemented with a carbon reduction strategy to reduce the team’s impact over time.
 
DS Virgin Racing recently launched its Race Against Climate Change programme, in conjunction with Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin Group and the Rocky Mountain Institute, which has paved the way for a series of new sustainability initiatives being unveiled in the lead up to their all-electric, FIA Formula E Championship race and Innovation Summit in Paris on April 28.
 
“DS Virgin Racing’s efforts to become carbon neutral shows the team’s desire to match sustainability leadership with a leading position on the track. Focusing on what action can be taken within the team’s own operations is a great first step, however critically there is also huge potential for the team to leverage its high-profile status to influence others. We are really excited to be working with such an innovative team in the all-electric Formula E motorsport series.”
 
Tom Delay, Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust.
 
Tom Delay, Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust.
 
“We’re very proud to be announcing the results of this work, which will further bolster our already high sustainability credentials. Understandably, being a motorsport team, we face concerns about the amount of carbon we produce in order to go racing. However, thanks to the Carbon Trust, we can be reassured that we are offsetting this and helping to play our part in tackling climate change. The team has always been committed to sustainability, in line with our purpose to ‘power innovation to impact lives positively’, and this new announcement just goes to demonstrate that. It will also underpin our Race Against Climate Change programme, which seeks to accelerate initiatives that help the world achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Accord. In addition, it also complements our new sustainably built headquarters at Silverstone Park and our Paris Innovation Summit, which we’re hosting on race day together with Sir Richard Branson.”
 
DS Virgin Racing Team Principal Alex Tai
 
DS Virgin Racing Team Principal Alex Tai
 
 
Source, banner and infographic credits to Carbon Trust.
Steve Howard sees Sustainable Design as a positive challenge - Leaders4Climate
Steve Howards, CEO of The Climate Groups, talks about the impact of Sustainable Design.
 
The Leaders4Climate initiative engages influential and well-known figures in speaking out on climate change.
 
Rocky Duwani believes music can be a force for good - Music4Climate
The afro roots music star and humanitarian activist Rocky Duwani talks about the impact of music on international challenges.
 
The Music4Climate initiative draws upon interest in climate change among musicians and songwriters.
 
Sam Bird is Racing Against Climate Change at Formula E
The DS Virgin Racing team is calling for accelerated climate action with their Race Against Climate Change campaign. #RomeEPrix kicks off with Sam Bird starting in 2nd place. 
 
Click here to find out more and join the campaign.
 
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Design4Climate Action at the Milan Design Week – addressing climate change through sustainability in design
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Five years after its first engagement with the design industry the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate global partnership program returns to Milan Design Week 2018 to highlight positive solutions.
 
Design underlines every physical object we know. As the world walks towards a new era of eco-friendliness, low-carbon, and sustainability, the “Design4Climate Action” weeklong series of events will engage diverse audiences to embrace climate-driven, sustainable design. Sustainable design is climate-smart, environmentally-friendly and socially responsible, often achieved through a circular-economy mindset that thrives on renewable resources, efficient construction, reduced waste, and healthy and productive environments. 
 
On the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2018, from Tuesday 17th to Sunday 22nd April, Connect4Climate, the international program of the World Bank dedicated to communication on climate change, and LifeGate, the Italian media network promoting sustainability, partner with Material ConneXion Italia Salone del Mobile Milan, TVN Media Group and IULM University, to present the Design4Climate Action initiative.
 
Join and engage with our Facebook Live recordings and discuss online with #Design4Climate
 
Conceived as a traveling media zone, Design4Climate Action will be a digital collector and amplifier of sustainability information, and related content during Milan Design Week. The collaboration aims to maximize climate action by encouraging accelerated sustainable design practices throughout the design industry and the private sector as a whole.
 
Numerous hubs will be located throughout the city of Milan. During the day, Connect4Climate will host live interviews at the Lifegate space (Materials Village, inside Superstudio Più), featuring an engaging recording program, live interviews, editorial activities and social content. In the evening, from 7:00 to 8:30 PM, the Design4Climate Action program will continue at the exhibition "Living Nature“ designed by the international design and innovation firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and located in front of Palazzo Reale. "Living Nature" is a 500-square-meter area where the four seasons are represented and made to coexist. As described by Carlo Ratti, the "Living Nature" installation is a reflection of climate change and the impact they have on the concept of urban living - above all an invitation to the return of nature in the city.
 
Milan Design Week Installations
Photo Credit: Bárbara Gomes Simões / Connect4Climate 
 
Several itinerant media zones will also populate the Salone del Mobile and the streets of Milan, engaging experts, artists and citizens, and fostering the exchange of opinions and discussions on the theme of design and sustainability.
 
Transformation to a low-carbon, resilient future includes building sustainability into the very design of our cities, our houses, our clothes, our technology, and all the elements of our daily lives. Brilliant ideas, innovative solutions, and new designs come from every corner of the planet. Many will be presented in Milan during the week. How these contribute to promoting climate action, to building a low-carbon, resilient and sustainable future, will both surprise and excite those who attend.
 

The Program

These are the main events of the week, from Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 April:
 
  10:00 am-9:00 pm at Materials Village, Via Tortona, 27
 
      ​  Press Review from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
 
        ​  Interviews and debates from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
 
  10:00 am-10:00 pm at “Living Nature” pavilion, Palazzo Reale (Piazza del Duomo)
 
         ​  Interviews and debates from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
 
  9:30 am-6:30pm at Salone del Mobile, Fiera Milano, S.S. del Sempione 28, Rho Milano
 
         ​  Interviews inside the Pavilions of Rho Fiera from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
 

Connect4Climate is a World Bank Group Multi-Donor Trust Fund powered by Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development that drives climate action through advocacy, partnerships, and creative communications.

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