Youth from around the Planet submitted their Film4Climate stories in a global call for climate action. Emotional, powerful, solutions-orientated films to inspire individuals, organizations and world leaders to take action on climate change, and build a greener future.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched Young Champions of the Earth, a new initiative to spot young, talented people between the ages of 18 and 30 and support their inspiring ideas to save the environment.
Young Champions of the Earth is a global stage for young people to showcase technological inventions and innovative business models that improve our planet's health. The initiative aims to counter the negative discourse on the environment and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders.
Young Champions of the Earth is sponsored by Covestro, one of the world’s leading polymer companies and a strong proponent of innovation for environmental sustainability.
Each year, six young people – one from each of UN Environment’s global regions – will be named Young Champions of the Earth. These winners will each receive US$15,000 in seed funding as well as intensive training and tailored mentoring to help bring their big environmental ideas to life.
The winners will be selected by a global jury that includes UN Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim and Covestro CEO Patrick Thomas. Winners will be invited to attend the Champions of the Earth Gala Dinner, to be held in Nairobi in December 2017.
The application period opens on 22 April and will close on 18 June.
- Erik Solheim, UN Environment Executive Director
- Patrick Thomas, Covestro CEO
MIT’s Climate CoLab, a quickly growing community of nearly 90,000 members worldwide sourcing innovative proposals on how to address climate change, is seeking volunteer Fellows. In 2017, Climate CoLab is running a suite of online contests on topics such as energy supplies, carbon pricing, land use change, buildings, adaptation, shifting behaviors and more. Fellow roles available and how to apply below:
Contest Fellows are graduate students, Ph.D. candidates or professionals with expertise in topics related to climate change, and are eager to support a diverse online community in promoting and developing new, creative solutions. They work with senior experts, explore issues of interest to them, connect with relevant organizations and interested citizens internationally, and take a leadership position in this fast-growing and innovative project. This role requires a strong and ongoing commitment for the duration of the contest (a minimum of 2 - 3 hours/week between May – December 2017). Fellowships can be completed virtually and are unpaid. MIT's Climate CoLab is recruiting for two types of contest fellows: outreach and evaluation. For details on each of these roles, and to apply before April 30, please click here.
Impact Assessment Fellows take a leadership role in quantitatively analyzing and certifying the climate impact of proposals submitted to the platform. MIT's Climate CoLab is accepting expressions of interest from graduate students or professionals with experience in computer-based modeling, and/or an interest in mentoring others in these topics, who can devote 5 hours per week from September to November 2017. Fellows will receive training. Positions can be completed virtually and are unpaid. For more details and to apply, please see here.
The goal of the Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address global climate change.
Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence has developed this crowdsourcing platform where people work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change.
This Earth Day, April 22, Earth Day Network and the March for Science are co-organizing a rally and teach-in on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The day’s program will include speeches and training with scientists and civic organizers, musical performances, and a march through the streets of Washington, D.C. The crowd will gather at 8:00 am, and the teach-in will begin at 10:00 am.
This Earth Day, join the effort to defend the vital public service role science plays in our communities and our world.
+46 000 users visited Connect4Climate’s website last year, representing an increase of nearly 90% in the website traffic compared to the same period of the previous year. Connect4Climate’s different initiatives (Film4Climate, Sport4Climate, Youth4Climate, …), activities, competitions and events managed to bring in visitors from all over the world:
Analyzing Connect4Climate’s website statistics, it is possible to retrieve information regarding the website traffic data. This achieves a grand total +200 000 page views, representing an average of 2/3 pages per session. These are the highest numbers ever registered, and the redesign of the official website on March 2016, clearly had a great effect on boosting the outcome.
Communicating climate change and accelerating real world solutions through partnerships, competitions, events, and knowledge sharing – that’s the mission of the program which reaches people all around the world, with citizens of the United States, Russia and India as the main visitors of the website.
The Film4Climate Global Video Competition – Connect4Climate’s recent flagship contest – single handedly brought in more than 17,000 visitors, making it a truly impactful global event.
A Special thank you to Sapient Corporation for developing and redesigning the new Connect4Climate website.
This believes Spencer Sharp, filmmaker, and producer of “Three Seconds,” first prize short-film winner of the Film4Climate Global Video Competition.
Telling a story through images is an essential way to involve audiences on global issues such as the climate change one. Movies have the power to alter minds and actions, and they are a valuable tool to encourage climate change awareness and action among different spectators.
Connect4Climate and partners invite you for a Facebook live Q&A with Spencer Sharp, filmmaker, and producer of “Three Seconds,” the first prize short-film winner of the Film4Climate Global Video Competition.
Photography has the power to capture moments, disclose realities and to convey messages to the world. It carries this responsibility throughout time, long after people have forgotten about the event.
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>1.</strong> Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/connect4climate/" target="_blank">@Connect4Climate </a>on Instagram</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"><strong> 2. </strong>Take a photo related with the presented theme, and share it on Instagram. The photo must be original – i.e. you must be the photographer. Your photos are governed under the <a href="https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511" target="_blank">Instagram terms of use</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>3.</strong> In the caption describe what you see, where the photo was taken, and what it means to you.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>4. </strong>Use the hashtag #Photo4Climate.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <u><strong>5.</strong> Don’t forget to set your account to “public”.</u></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/Photo4Climateisback.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 667px;"></p>
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<li>Judging criteria for photo winner:
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<li>Power of the photograph and its caption or narrative (includes creativity and the story the photo tells related to climate change and the current theme);</li>
<li>Potential impact on the challenge objectives of raising awareness about climate change issues and communicating a personal climate change story or local climate change solution;</li>
<li>Originality;</li>
</ol>
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<li value="2">Finalist photo will:
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<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate Instagram page on Wednesday;</li>
<li>Be featured in a photo album on the Connect4Climate Facebook page;</li>
<li>Be featured in Connect4Climate Twitter account;</li>
<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate website as an article;</li>
<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate Flickr account;</li>
<li>Be included on our newsletter to all our partners.</li>
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<li value="3">You can submit as many photos you want.</li>
<li value="4">Connect4Climate reserves the right to use these images on our social media channels, website, at events for Connect4Climate with photo credit/Instagram account name of submitter.</li>
</ol>
<p align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Share your story with us. Let’s raise awareness about climate change together!</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/upload/Photo4Climat…; target="_blank">Help us spread the word!</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/Photo4Climate-Rivers-And-Lakes.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sit by a river. Find peace and meaning in the rhythm of the lifeblood of the Earth.</em></p>
<p>This week's theme is "<strong>Lakes and Rivers</strong>." Don't forget to share your climate story on Instagram with the hashtag #Photo4Climate until Tuesday, April 3 (EST)!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>WINNER:</strong></u></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BR82AZ8AXaQ/?taken-by=ivanbruce1" target="_blank">Ivan Bruce</a> is the #Photo4Climate winner of the theme Rivers and Lakes, showing the impact of discarded waste in Ibadan's rivers in Nigeria.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BR82AZ8AXaQ/" target="_blank"><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Ivan-Bruce-Photo4Climate-Winner-Rivers-Lakes.jpg" style="width: 799px; height: 800px;"></strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Discarded waste in Ibadan's rivers significantly contribute to the cities high exposure to flooding," Ivan Bruce wrote.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Photo4Climate-Food-Lifestyle.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Create healthy habits, not restrictions. - unknown</em></p>
<p><strong>"Food and Lifestyle"</strong> is this week's theme. Don't forget to share your climate story on Instagram with the hashtag #Photo4Climate until Tuesday, April 18 (EST).</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>WINNER:</strong></u></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BS7s05ugLzL/">Abha</a>, from Los Angeles, USA won this week’s Photo4Climate #Food and #Lifestyle. Abha and her family are trying to tackle climate change by eating more wisely, purchasing, for example, locally grown plant-based food, recycling waste and using less water. Congratulations! See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Winner-FL-Banner.PNG" style="width: 1000px; height: 684px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"In regards to food, my family has been trying to contribute by eating more wisely such as more locally grown plant-based foods, recycling waste, using less water and not wasting food..." said Abha.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Banner-Site-EarthDay.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#000000;">The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise. – Rumi</span></em></p>
<p>As the world comes together to celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd, this week’s Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme is all about <strong>"Earth Day"</strong>. Add the #Photo4Climate hashtag to your picture and let us know how your 2017 Earth Day went.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p>Michael Jabbi, from Uganda, won this week’s Photo4Climate on #EarthDay. The photo shows us a man carrying drums of water. Access to water is an issue faced by many countries across Africa. </p>
<p>Congratulations! See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Michael%20Jabbi_Uganda_May1.JPG" style="width: 1000px; height: 563px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/images/photo4climat…; style="width: 1000px; height: 353px;"></p>
<p>In the lead-up to the <strong>#All4TheGreen G7 Environment Week in Bologna</strong> - a week dedicated to discussing and celebrating the environment during the G7 Summit, this upcoming June -, Connect4Climate invites everyone who is passionate about the planet, the environment and everything around them to share their most striking photographs as a way to declare and celebrate the importance of Our Common Home.</p>
<p>Contestants are asked to submit their visual masterpieces by sharing them on their Instagram account using the #All4TheGreen hashtag. Add a descriptive caption, describing what you see, where the photo was taken, and what it means to you. What’s important to you for green progress? What is your pledge for the environment? What is #All4TheGreen? Capture that perfect moment and share it with the world!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Learn more about this contest <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiative/photo4climate-contest-are-yo…; target="_blank">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="#Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/%23Photo4Climate-Biodiversity-Wildlife-Conservation.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Biodiversity is the way so don't let nature go astray</em></p>
<p>This week’s Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme is about "<strong>Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation</strong>." Add the <strong>#Photo4Climate</strong> hashtag to your picture and share with us your view on this topic.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p>Congratulations to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/saldana_08/">Santiago Aldana</a>, from Mexico, the winner of this week’s #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge - on the #Biodiversity and #Wildlife Conservation's theme. Santiago´s photo shows us wild horses strolling on the beach, quoting the Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, taking us to the past full of memories and loneliness: “Shall we let the time stop, see our memories in the seas. And this loneliness, so deep...” See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation Winner - Climate Change" data-delta="1" data-fid="29384" data-media-element="1" src="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/upload/saldana_08_2…; style="width: 800px; height: 532px;" title="Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation Winner - Climate Change" typeof="foaf:Image"></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.”</em> – Alexander von Humboldt</p>
<p>“Habitat and Ecosystems” will be the next week’s theme for the Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge. Add the #Photo4Climate hashtag to your picture and share your climate story with us. </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shinesthroughwater/">Deborah Harford</a> is the winner of this week´s #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme: #Habitat/Ecosystem.<br>
Deborah´s photo show us a performance art by Still Moon Arts Society, in Vancouver, Canada. The group celebrated the return of chum salmon to spawn in Still Creek for the 4th year consecutive, a result of the efforts of restoration and conservation done by the city since 2002. Deborah says this process of “rewilding” is a “win-win for planet and local species” since it “helps with urban adaptation to climate change impacts such as extreme heat and flooding”. Congratulations Deborah Harford!<br>
See the picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/shinesthroughwater_03July.JPG" style="width: 500px; height: 498px;"></p>
La Muestra de Cine Socioambiental (MCSA) presentará este año una selección internacional de producciones audiovisuales en diversos géneros que analizan situaciones donde confluyen naturaleza, cultura y justicia social. Durante los últimos ocho años, el Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara y el Museo de Ciencias Ambientales del Centro Cultural Universitario han programado un total de 126 producciones. Para esta IX edición la Muestra contará con la colaboración por tercera ocasión de Connect4Climate y por cuarta ocasión de Cinema Planeta- Festival Internacional de Cine y Medio Ambiente de México.
Este año serán presentados 9 largometrajes y 20 cortometrajes. Al término de las funciones tendrá lugar un panel de análisis con especialistas en los temas e invitados especiales en interacción con el público. Cuatro de estos largometrajes se exhibirán gratuitamente en la Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco “Juan José Arreola” acompañados por algunos de los cortometrajes y un día será dedicado a la selección de cortometrajes ganadores de Film4Climate 2016.
Destaca dentro de la programación el estreno mundial de Nahui Ollin (Sol de movimiento) un documental que a través de la mirada de ocho realizadores “explora varios puntos en México para descubrir como el cambio climático ha ido avanzando en uno de los países con mayor biodiversidad a nivel mundial. Corales, glaciares, mares, manglares, ríos, montañas, campos y ciudades han sido testigos del avance de lo que puede representar la mayor amenaza para la humanidad en esta era”.
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