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Launch of the Digital Media Zone at Innovate4Climate with James Close, Michael Mathres, Max Edkins

"Carbon pricing is the silver bullet to solve climate change"

“This is the issue of our times. Climate change is the biggest issue.” The filmmaker, Kaia Rose, stresses the importance of discussing this global matter on a Connect4Climate Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday, May 11th, with Eric Mann.

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Recap the Facebook Live Q&A

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Watch "Climate Countdown: Price on Carbon”

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Facebook Live with filmmakers of "Climate Countdown: Carbon Pricing"

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Is carbon pricing an effective solution to solve climate change? Connect4Climate and partners invite you for a Facebook live Q&A with Kaia Rose and Eric Mann, filmmakers of “Climate Countdown: Carbon Pricing”, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition’s short-film winner of the Put A Price On Carbon Pollution Award.

Photo4Climate Contest: Are you #All4theGreen?

In the lead-up to the #All4TheGreen G7 Environment Week in Bologna - a week dedicated to discussing and celebrating the environment during the G7 Summit, this u

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Special Blue Prize

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Connect4Climate, in partnership with the High-Level Panel on Water, announces the #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate Contest Special Blue Prize. We are awarding a special Blue Prize for the best photo of anything related to water in your life. It could be clean water, dirty water, lack of water; how water insecurity can lead to fragility and violence; how the lack of running water and sanitation leads to disease and stunting. How too much or too little water leads to environmental disasters and suffering. How do you value water?

“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” — Eve Arnold

<h2>Prize</h2>

A trip to New York City for the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly (<a href="http://sdg.iisd.org/events/72nd-session-of-the-un-general-assembly-unga…; target="_blank">UNGA</a>), September 2017. Winner to be announced June 8th, World Oceans Day. [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 6th; THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 8th]

<h2>About the High-Level Panel on Water</h2>

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim convened a <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/HLPWater" target="_blank">High-Level Panel on Water (HLPW)</a> 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

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.

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Jury

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Leigh Vogel, Photographer

Leigh Vogel is a photographer based in Washington, D.C. and on assignment in the US and abroad, photographing news, sports, destination travel, and portraits for agencies and clients including The Associated Press, Getty Images, UPI, Brandywine Valley, and for Connect4Climate. Serving as the President of the Women Photojournalists of Washington, Leigh's personal work consists of human rights and animal rights imagery and is the Photography Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication.

Reza Deghati, Photographer

<div>Reza Deghati was born in Tabriz, Iran, of Azerbaijani origin. Over the last three decades, many of Reza’s photographs have been on the covers of National Geographic Magazine, with much more featured in major international publications. He is also the author of seventeen books, including War+Peace, the first in a series entitled Masters of Photography by National Geographic, and most recently, Sindhbad, Reza's adaptation of the seven journeys of this mystical character from the classic tale, A Thousand and One Nights. Childhood Promise is the story of discovery, narrated by three people, about a promise made by Reza to his son, Delazad. In 2001, he founded Aina (Persian for The Mirror), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering Afghan women and children through the media. National Geographic awarded him the title of National Geographic Fellow. In 2006 and in 2008, Reza became a senior fellow of the Ashoka Foundation, and in May 2009, received the Honorary Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the American University of Paris (AUP) for his achievements in journalism and humanitarianism. In October 2009, he received the Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary from the New York-based Lucie Foundation and in May 2010, in New York, the Infinity Award of ICP (International Center of Photography) honoured Reza for his latest report on Afghanistan; “Once upon a time, the Russian Empire”, in Photojournalism category. Reza is currently planning a new photography project with residents of the Sicilian suburb of Librino, as well as another major project in Burkina Faso. Reza's photographs have been exhibited in major cities throughout the world, and he has been the recipient of numerous humanitarian and photographic awards.</div>

Daniel Rodrigues, Photographer

Portuguese born in Compiègne, France, in 1987, <a href="https://www.danielrodriguesphoto.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Rodrigues</a> lives in Portugal, near Porto, since he is 10 years old. Daniel Rodrigues became a professional photographer after the passage by the Portuguese Institute of Photography (2010). His career started in the Portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manhã, and he also worked in Global Imagens agency, responsible for photographs in newspapers as Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias and O Jogo. He is an award-winning photographer who in 2013 won the first place in the World Press Photo, Daily Life category, in 2015 the third place as Photographer of the Year in POYi, in 2017 a third place as Photographer of the Year in NPPA - Best of Photojournalism and among many other awards. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Helsingin Sanomat, Die Welt, Daily Mail, CNN, BBC, Folha de São Paulo, Courrier Internacional, Expresso, Visão Magazine, among others, are where he already has published photos. Daniel is currently based in Portugal. He works as a freelance photographer all around the world and a contributor photographer for the New York Times since May 2015.

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Buscamos las mejores fotos de nuestro planeta (Spanish version)

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Previo a la Semana del Medio Ambiente #All4TheGreen G7 en Bolonia, Italia, un espacio dedicado a discutir y celebrar el medio ambiente durante la Cumbre del G7, el próximo mes de junio, Connect4Climate invita a todos los apasionados por el planeta, a compartir las fotografías más sorprendentes como una declaración y celebración de Nuestra Casa.

El concurso #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate invita a las personas a usar sus cámaras como un instrumento de cambio, como una herramienta para explorar la belleza e importancia de nuestro planeta, desde un paisaje, un nacimiento de agua, un bosque local, un océano, un lugar de herencia cultural o un ambiente de ciudad. Las fotografías deben servir como un mensaje visual para concienciar sobre los problemas ambientales y el cambio climático, fomentar la acción y también proponer soluciones potenciales para proteger esos lugares.

Los participantes deben enviar sus piezas visuales compartiéndolas en sus cuentas de Instagram usando el hashtag #All4TheGreen. Agregando una descripción sobre lo que se ve, dónde fue tomada la foto, y qué significado tiene.

¿Por qué es importante para ti para el desarrollo verde?

¿Cuál es tu compromiso con el medio ambiente?

¿Qué es #All4TheGreen?

El concurso estará abierto hasta el 31 de mayo y los finalistas serán anunciados el 5 de junio durante el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente. Además, serán exhibidos durante la Semana por el Medio Ambiente #All4TheGreen en Bolonia, Italia del 5 al 12 de junio. La foto ganadora recibirá reconocimiento en todos los eventos de Connect4Climate, y será promocionada en las plataformas de Connect4Climate. [FECHA LÍMITE EXTENDIDA HASTA EL 6 DE JUNIO. EL VENCEDOR SERÁ ANUNCIADO EN EL 8 DE JUNIO]

<h3>Cómo Participar</h3>

1. Sigue @Connect4Climate en Instagram

2. Toma una foto relacionada con el tema (All4TheGreen) y compártela en Instagram. La foto debe ser original y de tu autoría. Las fotos serán usadas bajo las políticas de Instagram.

3. En el encabezado describe qué ves, dónde fue tomada la foto y qué significa para ti.

4. Usa el hashtag #All4TheGreen

5. No olvides tener tu cuenta como “pública”.

Five movies to inspire you in 2017, from the Film4Climate competition

Here's a selection of movies from the Film4Climate competition that provide plenty of inspiration to take action to make a difference against climate change.

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Deauville Green Awards: Call for entries until May 12

The best corporate films, documentaries and spots on sustainable development, eco-innovation and social responsibility from all over the world are joining the internationally renowned competition, the Deauville Green Awards.

Until the 12th of May, professionals can go online and register their best spots, corporate films and documentaries in the 3 competitions and 14 categories available, covering themes of sustainable development, eco-innovations, and CSR.

The 2016 record of more than 300 films in competition has already been broken! The festival allows professionals to promote their films and messages by winning an internationally recognized trophy; the Golden Green Award, which has rewarded excellence in green and responsible audio-visual media since 2012.

The 2017 international jury is made up of around 20 professionals from the fields of audio-visual media, communications, and journalism as well as representatives of international key players such as the BBC, the World Bank, Euronews, France Télévisions, the French Ministry of Culture, Publicis, WWF etc.

For this 6th edition, in addition to the networking sessions, cocktails, meals and after-parties, a rich program rich await the profession on June 27th and 28th in Deauville, France:

> Roundtables focused on innovation in 2017: on digital, new mobility, etc.

> Workshops of key players

> A rich program focused on the guest country of honor 2017; Belgium

> The projection of the 100 finalist films in the presence of their teams

> A prestigious première of Jean-Michel Cousteau

This will include Jean Jouzel, Nobel Prize winner in 2007 with the IPCC, who will accompany the festival as chairman of the Scientific Committee. His leitmotiv: "when one seeks, it is not enough to find, you must make it known!". This is precisely the essence of the festival for the past five years; the use of images in order to reveal, denounce, value, explain and sensitize the statistics.

Register your best spots, corporate and documentary film now!

Rediscover the 2016 winning entries here.

Meet this year's jury here (a special reference to Giulia Camilla Braga, Senior Communications Consultant, Connect4Climate)

9th Cinema Planeta International Film and Environment Festival

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Last year, 2016, we faced great challenges such as droughts, unusual storms, rising seas and oceans, and so on, that we, as humanity, have to assume together. Millions of people were displaced by events related to the climate, it is urgent to take actions that mitigate and reverse the effects of global warming.

Climate change is closely linked to energy generation and it is for this reason that Cinema Planeta, Mexico’s International Film and Environment Festival, dedicates its ninth edition to this theme in the different activities of the festival.

Benjamin Pfohl: Read this filmmaker's vision for our planet's future

Vulcan Productions helps create stories to inspire people to move the planet towards a better future. In 2016, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition invited aspiring filmmakers to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action. We recently talked to German filmmaker Benjamin Pfohl to hear what inspired him to make Eternal Summer, the lessons he learned and how climate change is impacting his life.

Benjamin Pfohl

What inspired you to make this film?

First of all, I wanted to do my part in preventing climate change and I wanted to do so with what I can do best, through filmmaking. I wanted people to get aware of what is at stake. After watching many other climate films, which mostly address their audiences with information about the matter, I wanted to do something different. I think to change a person’s mind, it has to come from the heart. So, I confronted the audience with an emotional, dystopian vision of a world past climate change and combined it with a fictional, contrary speech of how we think about the future today.

Why is climate change important to you?

The world is full of conflicts and problems and will always be, but living on this planet is the one thing where life itself starts. It’s the one thing that will stay. So I think the most important thing is to keep this world safe and vivid. I see mankind more as a guest on this planet and therefore we need to behave like such. It is a symbiotic connection and we need to do all that is possible to protect it.

What is one thing that you wish people knew about your region of the world and how it is being affected by climate change?

I am lucky to live in a region that isn't affected by obvious climate change as much as others are. Still, even central Europe is affected by climate change and the harmful actions people and companies do to nature such as shaping rivers to canals and remodeling whole landscapes through open-pit mining. There is a change going on and I hope that we stop these actions in the near future.

What is one thing you learned from embarking on this film?

Filmmaking is a very expensive endeavor and getting this film done without the needed budget was a tough thing at first. Going deeper into production, we found so many people who cared about climate change that they were willing to spend their time or money on the project. I learned that a lot of people actually care about this world, which gave me hope that there is a change to come.

What is one thing people can do to make a difference?

First, we need global acknowledgment that climate change is happening. Then, everyone needs to find the things they can change to do their part in preventing it. As a filmmaker, I used my craft to make Eternal Summer. And as a private person, I try to do the little things: I don’t own a car, but take public transportation or bike. For longer distances, I prefer going by bus or train instead of flying whenever possible. I use electricity from alternative energies and buy regional products whenever I can. But again, every single life gives different opportunities to act.

Q&A with the filmmakers behind "Sunday Thoughts"

Film4Climate Global Video Competition Call to Action (90 sec)