153 Countries – 860 Videos – A global youth call for climate action
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The Film4Climate Global Video Competition closed for submissions at the end of September. With more than 860 videos sent in by filmmakers from 153 countries this really is a global youth call for climate action.

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<p>The Film4Climate social media <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/publication/film4climate-competition-so…; target="_blank">report</a> shows great numbers and a positive impact. Some highlights:</p>

<p>-&nbsp;8.7k mentions<br>
- 168 million impressions<br>
- 6.5k retweets<br>
- 121 blogs<br>
- 66 news<br>
- mentioned mostly in English and Spanish</p>

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About the Film4Climate Competition
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<p>The <a href="https://www.film4climate.net/&quot; target="_blank">Film4Climate Global Video Competition</a> is the outcome of a partnership between the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate program, the United Nations, Vulcan Productions, and the Italian energy company Enel, which has endorsed the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and targeted carbon neutrality for its operations by 2050. Other presenting partners include the UNFCCC, UN Sustainable Development, UNEP, The Global Brain, and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco. In addition, more than 70 collaborating partners are supporting the competition.</p>

<p>The Film4Climate Global Video Competition invited aspiring 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 called 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 were 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?</p>

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

<p>The winning entries will receive cash prizes of $8,000, $5,000, and $2,000 for first, second and third place in each of two categories: an under one-minute Public Service Advertisement (PSA) or a Short Film up to five minutes. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the United Nations COP22 Climate Summit in Marrakesh, Morocco in November.</p>

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Founded in 1982, The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society is a not-for-profit cultural organization that operates the internationally acclaimed Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and the year-round programming of the Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre.

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Winners of 2016 UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award announced
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Thirteen game-changing initiatives from around the world were announced today as winners of the UNFCCC's Momentum for Change climate change award.

Winning activities include:

  • A Google-led project that could catalyse the rooftop solar market for millions of people across the United States
  • An ingenious net that harvests fog from the air to provide drinking water for people on the edge of Morocco’s Sahara Desert
  • North America’s first revenue-neutral tax that puts a price on carbon pollution
  • A project that has established the first women-specific standard to measure and monetize women’s empowerment benefits of climate action

Other winners include the EU’s largest crowdfunding platform for community solar projects and a project in Malaysia initiated by Ericsson that uses sensors to provide near real-time information to restore dwindling mangrove plantations.

Further winners are a company that provides solar systems to homes and businesses in rural Tanzania through an innovative financial package and a Swedish city that became the first in the world to issue green bonds, enabling it to borrow money for investments that benefit the environment.

The Momentum for Change initiative is spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat to shine a light on some of the most innovative, scalable and replicable examples of what people are doing to address climate change. Today’s announcement is part of wider efforts to mobilize action and ambition as national governments work toward implementing the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

“The Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activities underline how climate action and sustainable development is building at all levels of society from country-wide initiatives to ones in communities, by companies and within cities world-wide,” UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said. “By showcasing these remarkable examples of creativity and transformational change, along with the extraordinary people behind them, we can inspire everyone to be an accelerator towards the kind of future we all want and need.”

Each of the 13 winning activities touches on one of Momentum for Change’s three focus areas: Women for Results, Financing for Climate Friendly Investment and ICT Solutions. All 13 will be showcased at a series of special events during the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco (7 November to 18 November 2016).

The 2016 Lighthouse Activities were selected by an international advisory panel as part of the secretariat’s Momentum for Change initiative, which operates in partnership with the World Economic Forum Global Project on Climate Change and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative.

Read on to learn about these 13 game-changing activities:

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Announcing the launch of the Earth To Marrakech Global Climate Movement
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New York, New York - At an event at United Nations headquarters today, the United Nations Foundation and GOOD magazine announced the launch of Earth To Marrakech, a global movement to raise the volume and profile of the discussion around climate action. Earth To Marrakech will cultivate a global climate conversation up to and through COP22, the United Nations climate conference held this year in Morocco November 7-18.

Building off of the momentum of the first-of-its-kind Earth To Paris movement, which helped to galvanize a collective global voice for the adoption of a universal climate agreement, the Earth To Marrakech coalition will unite partners around the world for the first Earth To convening after the adopting and signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change. This historic climate agreement was adopted in Paris and signed in New York. Now, we look to Marrakech, where leaders of government, business, and civil society will meet to discuss how nations can – and must – take action to meet and exceed the commitments they have made for the future of our planet.

Earth To Marrakech will provide the opportunity for cross-sector, solutions-oriented engagement in climate change conversations around COP22; a platform for amplifying the conversation across social and digital media; and a series of activations through inspiring calls to take bold, meaningful action to address climate change.

Experts, advocates, private sector leaders, bloggers, journalists, digital influencers, and civil society leaders will unite around Earth To Marrakech to discuss creative and impactful global solutions to climate change. Participants around the world will take part through multi-language livestreamed video and real-time interactions across multiple social media platforms using the unifying hashtag #EarthToMarrakech. 


 

Together, we can raise our voices in a collective call to move from words to action on climate change. As leaders prepare to meet in Morocco to discuss our shared future, we’re sending a message, from Earth To Marrakech: The world has made climate commitments, and now it’s time to act. The time for bold, ambitious climate action is now! 

Film4Climate deadline extended to 30 September to remember Donald Ranvaud
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Connect4Climate and partners have decided to extend the deadline for video submissions to the Film4Climate Global Video Competition until September 30th, 2016.

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Youth films calling for climate action
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<p>Already amazing stories from young people all around the world have been sent in, and more videos are being shared every day. The global youth call for climate action is building and we are very excited to take this message the UNFCCC COP22 meetings in Morocco later in the year. In early October the jury will select the winning videos.</p>

<p>There are witty calls to action, there are stories from more than 100 countries; there are films showing climate solutions and addressing climate impacts.</p>

<p>Some stories are dealing with deforestation, others with preventing emissions through sustainable land management, still others a looking into the energy revolution and how to transition to low-carbon energy sources, or build cities that are smarter and emit less greenhouse gases.</p>

<p>There are videos also dealing with the management of climate change impacts, through smart pastoralism, to efficient water management, and there are stories on pricing carbon and how to use climate finance to build a low-carbon resilient future.</p>

<p>Add your voice to the #Film4Climate Global Video Competition, submit your videos: <a href="https://www.film4climate.net/&quot; target="_blank">film4climate.net</a></p>

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<li>BREAKING: #Film4Climate DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 30 to remember @rene_leys &gt;&gt;&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a>&nbsp;[+photo]</li&gt;
<li>In memory of @rene_leys we&#39;ve extended #film4climate competition deadline until September 30 <a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
<li>In memory of @rene_leys&nbsp;@Connect4Climate&nbsp;&nbsp;extended #film4climate deadline until September 30&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
<li>#Film4Climate NEW DEADLINE: September 30. Keep submitting your climate stories &gt;&gt; <a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
<li>Great news: you have +2 weeks to submit your #film4climate video. NEW DEADLINE: September 30&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
<li>Enter #Film4Climate &amp; win #PriceOnCarbon award by illustrating the cost of carbon pollution&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo w/ new deadline]</li>
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<li>In loving memory of Donald Ranvaud, Connect4Climate and partners extended the #Film4Climate Competition deadline to&nbsp;September 30th.&nbsp;You have 2 more weeks to submit your climate story:&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
<li>The #Film4Climate Competition has a NEW DEADLINE to remember Connect4Climate&rsquo;s creative producer Donald Ranvaud. You can now submit your climate stories&nbsp;until September 30th. Show the world your solutions, your problems, your climate investment, your vision. Do it now:&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc&quot; target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2cGqsvc</a&gt; [+photo]</li>
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<li>To remember @Connect4Climate creative producer Donald Ranvaud, the #Film4Climate DEADLINE WAS EXTENDED to September 30. Enter: <a href="http://film4climate.net/&quot; target="_blank">film4climate.net</a></li>
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World Humanitarian Day: #Photo4Climate Finalist Photo of the Week
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Have you ever felt the urge to save the world and do something that could change someone´s life? Did you do it yet? If not, don´t worry, there is still time. The Humanitarian Day is all about that. It is about caring, taking action, inspiring and being inspired, thriving for change, improving the living conditions of impoverished people, being kind to people and animals and giving with all of your heart.

We have challenged you to share your pictures of people taking action to fight climate change on #HumanitarianDay - 19 August 2016 - and we are ready to announce this week´s finalist: congratulations Allan F. Castañeda, your picture really enhances youth´s voice in Philippines promoting environment protection.

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"Voices of the Youth"
My #Photo4Climate: #HumanitarianDay, these youth from Bulusan, Sorsogon in the Philippines joins on a rally in Juban, Sorsogon promoting environment protection and to stop #climatechange. They are against Geothermal Exploration around the Bulusan volcano. A placard shows the scenario of before and after the Geothermal Exploration and its effects to the ecosystem once implemented. This eye opener helps the present and future generation to build a better and safe nation.
Photo Credit: Allan F. Castañeda

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How Climate Change is Challenging the Olympic Games
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OLYMPIC ATHLETES CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE

 

At the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, more than 100 Olympians from 10 countries signed a petition urging world leaders to take action to address climate change on a global scale.

Athletes have noticed rising temperatures affecting their sports and failure to address climate change could jeopardise winter sports and the Winter Olympics. In 2014, temperatures in Sochi reached 68 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the warmest winter games in history.

Olympic Biathlon Athlete, Cross Country Skiing. 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City. Photo Credit: Pixabay

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