#All4TheGreen Contest Special Blue Prize: The 20 finalists
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Connect4Climate, in partnership with the High-Level Panel on Water, is awarding the #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate Contest Special Blue Prize

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<p>The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim convened a&nbsp;<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/HLPWater&quot; target="_blank">High-Level Panel on Water (HLPW)</a>&nbsp;in January 2016. One of its objectives is to develop a set of shared principles to motivate and encourage governments, business, and civil society to consider water’s multiple values and to guide the transparent incorporation of these values into decision-making</p>

<p>We need to accelerate a change in the way people use and manage water! The HLPW aims to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive, and collaborative way of developing and managing water resources, and improving water and sanitation related services. The members of the panel are of Heads of State from Australia, Bangladesh, Hungary.</p>

Winners of #All4TheGreen Contest announced
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For World Environment Day Bologna opens its doors to the All4TheGreen Week
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As World Environment Day is celebrated around the world, in Bologna, the Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti launched the All4TheGreen week of activities with a message to all: “The Paris Agreement should be implemented by all countries, it increases the economic competitiveness of these countries.” His interview on the Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy, launched a week of environmental and climate action in the lead up to the G7 Environment Minister meeting, June 11-12.

talian Environmental Minister Gian Luca Galletti at Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Italy

The Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti at Piazza Maggiore, Bologna. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate

For the week, June 5-12, more than 70 events will take place around the city to promote the transition to an international green economy. “We need to love our planet as we love ourselves", underlined Antonia Testa, Focolare Movement in Rome, during the first interview of the All4TheGreen SDG Media Zone presented by the Connect4Climate program of the World Bank Group and partners.

Speakers from the private sector, journalists, photographers and implementers of climate solutions took the stage to tell the world what needs to happen in order to protect the environment. "We have reached 66 million people forced to migrate for many factors and climate change is certainly a major one," informed the journalist Luca Attanasio, in a panel with the photographer Kadir Van Lohuizen. "Because of sea level rise, people are leaving. They will be forced to leave. Let's not forget, rising seas do not make a distinction between rich or poor", highlighted Kadir.

In a parallel event, Earth Day Italy awarded media professionals for their work reporting the environment. "We're using this planet as if we have another one," said the organization’s president Pierluigi Sassi during the awards ceremony. Connect4Climate’s program manager, Lucia Grenna, present to award and reminded the audience: "We are the custodians of this planet. To leave a clean future to our kids we must invest in a sustainable world."

Connect4Climate’s program manager, Lucia Grenna, in Bologna for #All4TheGreen week of activities.

Connect4Climate’s program manager, Lucia Grenna, addresses the audience in Bologna. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate

“The environment is a certainly a factor unifying countries and its people,” said Minister Galletti, in closing the awards ceremony. The Minister reminded all that All4TheGreen activities will continue all week, featuring environmental discussion, concerts, solar-powered film screenings, debates, announcements, art installations and other exciting events.

All4TheGreen week of activities in Bologna.

Bologna is the World Capital for the Environment with All4TheGreen. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate

Join Connect4Climate and partners in support of All4TheGreen, as we highlight the need to transition to a low-carbon, resilient and sustainable future. We are all for the green on World Environment Day and beyond. 

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#All4TheGreen Week of Activities

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G7 Environment discussions brought to a global audience by the SDG Media Zone/All4TheGreen Week of activities
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As the debate on climate solutions and environmental action intensifies around the world the focus from June 5 – 12th will be the City of Bologna, Italy, where more than 70 events and spectacles will aim to raise the bar of awareness and involvement under the #All4TheGreen

#All4TheGreen: Social Media Kit

Bologna is about to become the capital of the Environment with #All4TheGreen: over 70 events will be open to the public from June 5 to 12. This series of activities will pave the way to the Environment Ministerial Meeting, scheduled for June 11-12. The entire city - institutions, universities, and businesses - will be involved over the week, in events dedicated to the protection of the environment, to sustainable development and to the circular economy.