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18th International Environmental Film Festival of Canary Islands

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Relationship between humans and the environment in which develops its strategies, whether these survival or development, is one of our time’s great issues. Probably this analogy underlies other problems as a crucial element as it establishes degree of welfare, freedom and sustainability that affecting the territory. Human lives, transforms and uses the spaces occupied as no other species has done in the planet’s history.

How can the creative industries encourage climate action? - Live Q&A

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Next week the Paris Agreement will be signed, so this is the perfect time to ask: how can the arts engage the public to ensure it holds governments accountable?

The lazy person's guide to saving the world

End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. Whoa. The Global Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up?

No! Change starts with you. Seriously. Every human on earth—even the most indifferent, laziest person among us—is part of the solution. Fortunately, there are some super easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference.

We’ve made it easy for you and compiled just a few of the many things you can do to make an impact.

#Photo4Climate Finalist Photo

We are very pleased to announce our first winner of #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge: congratulations Olumide Climate Idowu. Your photo from Nigeria captures how public #health is being compromised by waste. Here is the original caption:

#ClimateChange & #Health Matters. Ibadan (Yoruba: Ìbàdàn or fully (Ìlú) Ẹ̀bá-Ọ̀dàn, meaning 'the city at the edge of the savannah' is the capital city of Oyo State and the third largest metropolitan area, by population, in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano, with a population of over 3.5 Million, and the country's largest metropolis by geographical area.
Climate Change Is Real. Poor Management of Our Canal Exposes Healthcare Workers, Waste Handlers and The Community to Infections, toxic effects and injuries.
Therefore "Ibadan" can and must keep the environment safe. #LetsDoMore
#Photo4Climate #ClimateWednesday
Location: Bode Canal, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Photo by: Me

We do really appreciate all photos submitted, so they are featured on Connect4Climate Facebook album. We challenge you to continue to raise awareness and share your climate change story with us: this week's theme is #Water. Don't forget to follow @Connect4Climate on Instagram, using the hashtag #Photo4Climate and this week's theme #Water. Finalist photo will be displayed during the Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony on 22nd April 2016 at UN Headquarters, New York.

More details here.

Climate Action 2016

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Climate change is the defining issue of our age. The landmark Paris Agreement reached last December commits all countries to holding global temperature rise to “well below 2 degrees Celsius”. This feat will require economy-wide global and national transformations. A robust, multi-sector response will be a key component of this solution to pivot societies toward a more sustainable future for all – the future we want.

Rock in Rio-Lisbon 2016

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Rock in Rio-Lisbon is back to Parque da Bela Vista on the 20th, 21th, 26th, 27th and 28th of May 2016. In addition to the musical that will celebrate the 30 years of the event, the organization will also launch of a book collection and a movie inspired by the history of the festival, expected to hit the cinemas in the spring of 2016.

Environment Summit 2016

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The One Young World Environment Summit is the first One Young World event to focus solely on environmental challenges and the role young leaders can play in solving them. 500 young leaders will be joined by experts from science, politics, the arts and business at Biosphere 2 in Arizona, 19 – 21 May 2016.

How sustainability creates new jobs

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Connect4Climate partner, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido CarliApril - LUISS, will host a series of six Academic Gym talks to promote awareness on sustainability and its positive economic effect. Healthier consumption and lifestyles to create new jobs, fight global warming and pollution efficiently, and create social justice.

Record Number of Signatures Expected for Climate Change Agreement on 22 April

A record number of countries are expected to sign the historic climate agreement adopted last December in Paris at a signing ceremony hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 22 April.

More than 130 countries have confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on 22 April, the first day that the agreement will be open for signature. This would surpass the previous record of 119 signatures for an opening day signing for an international agreement, set by the Law of the Sea in Montego Bay in 1994. In addition, more countries have informally indicated that they will sign the agreement, with the numbers increasing rapidly each week.

Over 60 Heads of State and Government will attend the ceremony, including French President François Hollande, demonstrating the continued high level of engagement by world leaders to accept and implement the Paris Agreement.

The signing ceremony will mark the first step toward ensuring that the Paris Agreement enters into force as early as possible. The agreement will enter into force 30 days after at least 55 countries, accounting for 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, deposit their instruments of ratification or acceptance with the Secretary-General.

A number of countries have also indicated that they will deposit their instruments of ratification immediately after signing the agreement on 22 April.

The 22 April signing ceremony will also bring together leaders from civil society and the private sector to discuss efforts to boost financing for climate action and sustainable development, and to increase actions that would achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting average global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

“Paris was historic,” the Secretary-General said. “But it’s only the beginning. We must urgently accelerate our efforts to tackle climate change. I encourage all countries to sign the Paris Agreement on 22 April so we can turn aspirations into action. ”

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Information on the 22 April Signing Ceremony can be found at www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climatechange

Media accreditation for the Signing Ceremony event ends 8 April. For information, see http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/confirm.shtml

For further information, please contact Dan Shepard, tel 1 212 963-9495; email: shepard@un.org

19th Environmental Film Festival - CinemAmbiente in Turin

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The 19th edition of CinemAmbiente - Environmental Film Festival will take place in Turin, Italy from May, 31st to June, 5th, the World Environment Day run by the United Nations Environment Programme. Submissions are open to environmental films produced after January, 1st 2015.