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The Film4Climate Global Video Competition formally opens as the centerpiece of the Connect4Climate initiative to promote sustainability in the creative industries through active engagement with young people in finding solutions to climate change.

Film4Climate Global Video Competition Opens for Submissions

The Film4Climate Global Video Competition opens today as the centerpiece of the Connect4Climate initiative to promote sustainability in the creative industries through active engagement with young people in finding solutions to climate change.

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About the Competition

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The <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">Film4Climate Global Video Competition</a> invites filmmakers from around the world to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action.

The competition calls on filmmakers to explore Climate Action, the 13th goal under the UN Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing what individuals and communities around the world are doing to promote action, offer solutions and inspire positive change to combat climate change and its impacts. Filmmakers are encouraged to deploy personal narratives that explore fundamental questions such as: What does climate change mean to me? What actions am I taking to mitigate the advance of global warming? What is my Climate Action message to the world?

Videos must be <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">submitted</a> as Public Service Announcements that are less than one minute, or as a Short Film, between one and five minutes.

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris) will serve as the jury president of the competition. Bertolucci is joined on the jury by Oscar-winning Directors and Producers as well as luminaries of cinema, communications and the environment, including Mohamed Nasheed, climate champion and former president of the Maldives, producer Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Pulp Fiction), director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Saving Face, A Girl in the River), director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove, Racing Extinction), director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener), director Robert Stone (Radio Bikini, Pandora’s Promise), director Mika Kaurismaki (Zombie and the Ghost Train), director Pablo Trapero (Carancho, El Clan), producer Martin Katz (Hotel Rwanda), Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic of The Washington Post, Sheila Redzepi, Vice President for External and Corporate Relations, World Bank Group, Moroccan director Farida Benlyazid (Frontieras, Keïd Ensa),  Carole Tomko, General Manager and Creative Director of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, Maria Wilhelm, Executive Director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation, Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, Rose Kuo, CEO and Artistic Director of the Qingdao International Film Festival, and Mark Lynas, author and environmentalist (The God Species, Six Degrees).

The competition is open to filmmakers between 14 and 35 years old. Submissions will be open through September 15, 2016. For full competition rules and eligibility requirements, please visit: <a href="http://www.film4climate.net/" target="_blank">film4climate.net</a> or <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">on our website here</a>.

<h2>Download the Competition Flyer</h2>

<h2>Share the #Film4Climate Competition</h2>

<a href="http://connect4climate.org/publication/film4climate-competition-social-…; target="_blank">View the Social Media Kit</a>

<a href="http://ow.ly/ePjf3018T5W" target="_blank">Download flyers and visuals</a>

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Press Release

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You can read and download the Press Release in: <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/film4climate-global-video-compe…; target="_blank">English</a>, <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/le-concours-vid%C3%A9o-mondial-…; target="_blank">French</a>, <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/inicia-la-competencia-global-de…; target="_blank">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D8%B7%D8%A7…; target="_blank">Arabic</a>, <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/cortometraggi-cambiare-il-mondo…; target="_blank">Italian</a>, <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/competi%C3%A7%C3%A3o-mundial-de…; target="_blank">Portuguese</a> and <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/content/%EC%84%B8%EA%B3%84%EC%9D%80%ED%…; target="_blank">Korean</a>.

Environment: #Photo4Climate Finalist Photo of the Week

We are warming our world by emitting greenhouse gases from the buring of fossil fuels and changing our landscapes and already we are feeling the impacts of a changing climate, the poor the most. We need to advance the solutions for a carbon-neutral future, to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, aiming to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. We need to drastically advance climate-friendly solutions that reduce our emissions and also build our resilience to adapt to the sea level risees, melting snow-packs, extreme weather events and shifting seasons that we are already facing.

We need to accelerate the climate movement for a sustainable future. In that sense, we've asked you to share your picture on #Environment to raise awareness on Climate Change, through our weekly #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge. Submitted photos really captured solutions, situations or simply facts that our planet is changing, but we have chosen our favorite: congratulations Róbert Blaško. Your beautiful photo really explores a positive solution for climate change. It makes us feel comfortable and peacefull.

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Clean Energy.
Photo Credits: Róbert Blaško

Biological Diversity: #Photo4Climate Finalist photo of the week

The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. Biological Diversity refers to all living organisms found on planet earth: human beings, animals, bacteria and millions of different organisms. This week Connect4Climate went #WildforLife and is spreading the word about illegal trade in wildlife that is driving species to the brink of extinction while posing environmental, economic, development and security risks. Therefore, we've challenged you to share your story relating Climate Change and #BiologicalDiversity through photography and we are ready to announce the finalist photo: Congratulations Kate Berrisford, you are the winner of this week's #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge: your image is very strong, the caption very informative, and the picture and caption combined could give people insight in to the issue adressed and climate change. Also, we want to congratulate Kaung Kywe Soe with a Special Mention for your caption: this photo is also unique, as it's very clear in its intention and not a common sight.

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This was taken at Thembe Elephant Park in South Africa, close to the border with Mozambique. Climate change affects biodiversity and ecosystems in many ways. These elephants need lots of fresh water to survive, and are sensitive to high temperatures. By protecting biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, we can help mitigate the impacts of climate change and through ecosystem based adaptation we can help enhance resilience and reduce vulnerability.
Photo Credit: Kate Berrisford

The red ants, carrying an arm of a spider as food for the rainy season. They are now building the new net by the new leaves of plants and they left the old one.
This is the preparing season for every livings in the forest. The heavy rains of coastal region will come soon.
Photo Credit: Kaung Kywe Soe

Connect4Climate going Wild for Life

Connect4Climate is joining the #WildforLife campaign - launched by UNEP - to tackle illegal trade in wildlife, warning that such trade is driving many species to the brink of extinction. This initiative aims to mobilize people to

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How to go #WildforLife?

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Together, let’s make it our mission to help end the illegal trade in wildlife to bring species back from the brink and preserve our precious planet for the benefit of people and planet. <a href="https://wildfor.life/quiz/" target="_blank">Discover</a> your kindred species:

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Who else is going #WildforLife?

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This campaign is being endorsed by celebrities across the globe as well as UNEP GoodWill Ambassadors:

<img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Gisele_Bundchen_-_Facebook.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 420px;" /> 
Brazilian model and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen: “It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are still hearing stories of wildlife facing the possibility of extinction at the hands of man. It is clear to me that a radical global shift needs to occur and it will take everyone accepting the challenge to support the UNEP Wild for Life campaign. Knowledge is power and now is the time to set our minds to ending all illegal wildlife trade before the choice is no longer in our hands. Today, I am giving my name to change the game for sea turtles.”

<img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Li_Bingbing_-_Facebook%20%281%29.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 420px;" /> 
Chinese Actress Li Bingbing: “Many do not realize that ivory comes from dead elephants and that by buying ivory, they may be playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade, supporting criminal groups and pushing elephants closer to extinction. This new campaign will not allow ignorance, indifference, fashion or status to serve as an excuse. Today, I am giving my name to change the game for elephants.”

<img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Yaya_Toure_-_Facebook_compressed.jpg" style="height: 420px; width: 800px;" /> 
Ivorian footballer Yaya Touré: “On the pitch, I see how important it is to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my teammates to take on the challenge and secure victory. The team we need to form to beat the illegal trade in wildlife is not just eleven – it is seven billion. And I hope to use my sphere of influence to ignite this movement. Today, I am giving my name to change the game for elephants. Give yours too and join my team. This is a challenge we can’t afford to lose.”