Film4Climate Global Video Competition Opens for Submissions
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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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<p>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.</p>

<p>The competition calls on filmmakers to <strong>explore Climate Action</strong>, 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?</p>

<p><strong>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.</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Bernardo Bertolucci </strong>(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 <strong>Mohamed Nasheed</strong>, climate champion and former president of the Maldives, producer <strong>Lawrence Bender</strong> (An Inconvenient Truth, Pulp Fiction), director <strong>Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy</strong> (Saving Face, A Girl in the River), director <strong>Louie Psihoyos</strong> (The Cove, Racing Extinction), director <strong>Fernando Meirelles</strong> (City of God, The Constant Gardener), director <strong>Robert Stone</strong> (Radio Bikini, Pandora&rsquo;s Promise), director <strong>Mika Kaurismaki</strong> (Zombie and the Ghost Train), director <strong>Pablo Trapero</strong> (Carancho, El Clan), producer <strong>Martin Katz</strong> (Hotel Rwanda), <strong>Ann Hornaday</strong>, Chief Film Critic of The Washington Post, <strong>Sheila Redzepi</strong>, Vice President for External and Corporate Relations, World Bank Group, Moroccan director <strong>Farida Benlyazid</strong> (Frontieras, Keïd Ensa),&nbsp; <strong>Carole Tomko</strong>, General Manager and Creative Director of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen&rsquo;s Vulcan Productions,<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 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/&quot; target="_blank">film4climate.net</a> or <a href="/Film4Climate-Competition" target="_blank">on our website here</a>.</p>

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Environment: #Photo4Climate Finalist Photo of the Week
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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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Photo Credits: Róbert Blaško

Images from a Warming Planet
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For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the natural world and environment, as a child I was an avid bird watcher, a hobby I still pursue to this day. Later on in life my other hobby of photography developed into a full time profession.

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<p>The next step is to print 500 of the best photographs in an art photographic book entitled &ldquo;Images from a Warming Planet&rdquo;. Jonathon Porritt has kindly written the foreword for the book, which I plan to self-publish. To this end I have launched a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter to raise the vital funds to enable me to print the book. I truly believe that this book will have a real impact on alerting the world to what is already happening out there as a result of climate change, and importantly, what we can all do to avert its worst impacts.</p>

<p>If you could&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/warmingplanet/images-from-a-warming…; target="_blank">support this campaign</a>&nbsp;by donating I would be truly grateful, no sum is too small.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The campaign runs for just 30 days. People&rsquo;s pledged money will only be taken If the target of &pound;50,000 is reached. I launched the campaign on 1st June, it runs to the 30th June. Already I have been overwhelmed by peoples kindness. Following a TV appearance in the UK about the project, I was contacted by a lady who said she wanted to give me a donation. I gave her my address and a week later a card arrived in the post with a cheque for &pound;20,000</p>

<p>Thanks for considering supporting this. My hope is that this project may prevent more people suffering the future horrendous consequences of climate change.</p>

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Sustainia publishes 100 innovative solutions to world’s biggest problems
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Sustainia launches the 2016 Sustainia100 publication. This year’s edition contains 100 solutions from all over the world that provide social, financial and environmental returns, whilst also addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. We believe these 100 solutions can help us build the world of tomorrow.

This is the fifth year of the Sustainia100. More than ever before, our research confirms that there are countless companies and organizations using new mindsets and innovative thinking to deliver on everything from good health and affordable and clean energy, to improved infrastructure and sustainable urban development.

What’s different this time around?

  • More people than ever before are aware of the case for sustainability, thanks to the unifying call of the Sustainable Development Goals. A sustainable future feels inclusive, desirable and possible – if we meet the global goals, and leave no one behind. The Sustainia100 maps each of the solutions against the global goals, to show where the opportunities sit.
  • More people than ever before are acting on sustainability, thanks to the leadership behind the UNFCCC. At the end of 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. The Sustainia100 reveals where in the world people are acting on sustainability, as global markets become primed for investment and innovation.

The Sustainia100 provides an accessible format to explore the solutions – just like a sustainable future, there is something for everyone.

Make the Sustainia100 your first stop for sustainable action, and help us build the world of tomorrow – starting today. Head to www.sustainia.me to find out more. 

You can read and download the complete Press Release here.

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World Environment Day (WED) -  June 5 - is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries. Above all, WED serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something to take care of the Earth or become an agent of change.

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