
Film4Climate, an initiative of Connect4Climate, the climate change communications program supported by the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea, the German Federal Ministry for Development and the World Bank Group in collaboration with more than 300 global partners, announced at the Uni

The world is experiencing unprecedented population growth, and, so too are the demands being placed on our environment – including increased production, accelerated use of natural resources, and spreading urbanisation.
Landfill sites globally are filling at a rate that we cannot sustain, and the great pacific garbage patch continues to increase in size every day. The role that waste plays in Climate Change are many, including toxic runoff into waterways and ground water, and methane emissions that are up to 23 times more dangerous that carbon dioxide. The incineration of waste releases carbon dioxide and dioxins into the atmosphere, all of which add to increasing levels of greenhouse gases.
In order to mitigate these issues, we need to reduce consumption and reuse and recycle waste.
While it is extremely important to be aware of the issues around Climate Change, it is also important not to focus on them too much as it can halt action, by disempowering people at the very thought of the scale of the problem. I want to promote the positive actions that people are taking right now to stop Climate Change, to inspire a more sustainable planet.
Back in March of 2012, I was lucky enough to win the “How are you greening your life?” competition, held by Connect4Climate. This was a great stepping stone for me personally, to be a part of a strong community that gives us all the chance to have a real impact on Climate Change by working together to find solutions and act. Being recognized for my work gave me the added motivation to continue on my project, and inspire as many people as possible to live more sustainably. This is an area that I am passionate about, and I have dedicated my life to for the last three years.
Dan Phillips builds entire houses from recycled materials for single mothers and low income families.
My project is called Retrash, which is a book with a simple goal – to inspire the world to rethink waste, and in turn create positive social change in better spending habits.
The book is a result of a collaboration of 82 designers and artists from 20 countries around the world who are leading the recycling and upcycling movement. This movement of people is more than just about reusing waste, they each have a philosophy and a way of living that is sustainable and creates awareness around the impact we humans have on our environment.
Jennifer Lara creates stunning tank tops from reusing old T-Shirts.
Each entry in the book features the story behind the creator, detailing why they do what they do, where they source their materials, and the ideas behind why they reuse waste. I have been an avid recycler/upcycler myself since I was young, and I feel very honored to be a part of such a positive and inspiring movement.
Through the book we can reach people globally, with ideas on how to reuse waste so we can all take action and integrate these ideas into our everyday life. We can also then change spending habits to reduce consumption of packaging and excess products that we don’t really need.
Gilles Eichenbaum creates these gorgeous lamps from old kettles.
You can be a part of this movement and take direct action against Climate Change by helping us get this book to print. We only have seven days left to raise funds to make this project a reality. Show your support by pre-ordering the book here.
Nathan Devine is based in the Blue Mountains, Australia as is the founder of Retrash.com – a platform dedicated to inspiring a more sustainable planet.

The New Year is a perfect time to reflect on the past year, imagine a better future, and think up resolutions to make that better future a reality. This year, why not dedicate one of your resolutions to taking 15 climate-friendly actions in 2015?
Tweet your New Year’s resolution to act on climate change with the hashtag #Action4Climate or post it on our Facebook page.
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The Be The Movement Workshop (#c4cMovement) highlights include: More than 500 participants; 50 countries represented; major Polish cities represented; 5 workgroups; 10 case study presentations; Panel discussion with
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<p>The Workgroup highlights are presented by Tan Copsey, Prof. Krzysztof Błażejczyk, Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, and Antonio Navarra before Rachel Kyte's keynote speech at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>The Workgroups focused on:</p>
<p>1. Messaging for New Audiences #ccMessage<br />
How do you message for new and broad audiences?</p>
<p>2. Empowering Educators #ccEducators<br />
What is needed to empower climate educators?</p>
<p>3. Innovating Campaign Strategies #ccCampaign<br />
What is missing in climate campaigns?</p>
<p>4. Considering Costs #ccCost<br />
How do you link economic incentives to climate action?</p>
<p>5. Leading for Solutions #ccLeading<br />
How do you catalyse the adoption of climate change solutions?</p>
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<p>"This is about building a movement, you are the movement.</p>
<p>As you said at the very beginning every one person can make a difference. If you look at the example of the women's movement, the gay rights movement, of the movements that have transformed within a generation not just what is happening in the world, but the way in which young people think about what their lives might be then every single person has made a difference.... If you want to make change you're going to have to take the brave fork in the road. That's your challenge."</p>
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<p>Corrado Clini, the Director General at the Italian Ministry of the Environment, introduces the afternoon programme of the Be The Movement Workshop and talks about Connect4Climate.He also introduces Irene Pecetti from Cruciani, who presents the Connect4Climate bracelet as a symbol for people to wear who care about climate change.</p>
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<p>Eliza Anyangwe from the Global Development Professionals Network of The Guardian interviews Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop, November 20, 2013. </p>
<p>Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz is Head of the Laboratory of Climate and Water Resources in the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań (RCAFE PAS), and a Senior Scientist in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany.</p>
<p>He was lead author of Chapter 13 (Europe) in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s WG2 TAR (Climate Change - Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities) and of Chapter 3 (Freshwater resources and their management) in IPCC's WG2 AR4. He also was lead author of IPCC's Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water and of Chapter 4 of the IPCC Special Report on Extremes. He was part of the inner circle of the IPCC, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a member of the Advisory Board on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Program. Prof. Kundzewicz holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of the scientific bi-monthly "Hydrological Sciences Journal" (Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK) and is a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals. He has authored 387 publications</p>
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<p>Bruce Campell gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Climate Smart Villages at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Bruce is the Director of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Program at CGIAR.</p>
<p>"What is a climate smart village? It's about new technologies, it's about climate information services, it's about local knowledge and institutions and it is about village development plans."</p>
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<p>Marion Davis gave a Pecha Kucha talk on In it Together: Learning to Build Capacity Across Cultures at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>She handles communications for Stockholm Environmental Institute's Reducing Climate Risk theme -- including editing, writing support, online materials, social media, outreach, media relations, and internal communications. She also manages communications for SEI-US and works closely with SEI headquarters on global communications.</p>
<p>"Adaptation is a learning process, climate change, everything we are doing, we are learning so it will get better."</p>
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<p>Jean-Pierre Roux gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the MAPS Programme at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Jean-Pierre provides knowledge management support for MAPS and CDKN. His research interests lie in South African energy policy and understanding how networks of expertise emerge to solve techno-social issues like climate change through technically rigorous and politically legitimate processes.</p>
<p>"We emphasize the development first approach, with climate co-benefits."</p>
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<p>Sepo Hachigonta gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Policy Engagements for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>He is responsible for coordinating FANRPAN's climate change projects including adaptation and mitigation. Since 2008, Hachigonta has been part of a team that runs training workshops on the use of climate information for policy development. The training is facilitated by University of Cape Town (UCT) in collaboration with United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC).</p>
<p>"We believe knowledge lies with the people."</p>
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<p>Arno Scharl gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Media Watch on Climate Change at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>He heads the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. Prior to this appointment, he held professorships at Graz University of Technology and the University of Western Australia, and the position of a Key Researcher at the Austrian Competence Center for Knowledge Management.</p>
<p>"The Media Watch on climate change aggregates and processes climate information [...] We track the evolution of trends and the goal is also to shared meaning and understand how others perceive climate change."</p>
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<p>Part 1: Jamie Henn presents 350.org on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.</p>
<p>Jamie Henn is the co-founder and Communications Director for 350.org, which grew from a group of six college friends and the writer Bill McKibben into one of the largest climate change campaigns in the world. The campaign now has over 40 staff members working on six continents and nearly a million supporters. Henn plays a key role in creating 350.org's strategy, coordinating its political advocacy, and helping the organization grow.</p>
<p>"We need to be a bit more like the world that we want to create. Instead of one big coal plant we want distributed solar panels. Instead of one campaign we many campaigns that work together and are interconnected and create power together."</p>
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<p>Part 2: David Cadman presents ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.</p>
<p>David Cadman is a former Vancouver city councillor, social and environmental activist, and a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors. In his native Canada, he worked for the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver Regional District as communications director. He has served as president of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation. Since 2007, Cadman is President of the international organization 'ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability' an international organization of nearly 1,000 local governments that have made a commitment to sustainability. He heads ICLEI's executive committee, representing the organization to other international bodies.</p>
<p>"Time is not on our side. It's time to get angry, it's time to say we want a future."</p>
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<p>Part 3: Wael Hmaidan presents the Climate Action Network on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.</p>
<p>Wael Hmaidan is director of CAN -- International. A social entrepreneur, in 2007 he founded IndyACT, a Lebanon-based organization that has spread throughout the Arab World and Europe. He has more than 16 years of experience in NGO management and environmental campaigning in a number of NGOs. He began as the Greenpeace campaigner for the Arab World, helping establish the energy and marine reserves campaign in the region. Through IndyACT's climate campaign, Hmaidan has been able to influence Arab climate policy and raise the profile of climate change among the region's public and governments. He served as one of Lebanon's lead negotiators in the UNFCCC.</p>
<p>"Key for success is not IQ, not anything related to discipline, but it is grit, which is having the courage to stand up and continue with full motivation and dedication to achieve something."</p>
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<p>Part 4: Kelly Rigg presents the Global Call for Climate Action (tck tck tck) on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.</p>
<p>Kelly Rigg is Executive Director of the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA), a world-wide alliance of more than 300 organizations collaborating under the banner of the "TckTckTck Campaign." She has been leading international campaigns on climate, energy, oceans, and Antarctica for nearly 30 years. She was a senior campaign director for Greenpeace International and a founder of the Varda Group consultancy providing campaign and strategic advice to a wide range of NGOs.</p>
<p>"We need a full spectrum of people involved, mobilize people who are passionate already and get them to take stronger action."</p>
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<p>Part 5: Question and Answer session lead by Eliza Anyangwe with participants of the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.</p>
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<p>Nick Nuttall holds a motivational talk on climate action, highlighting the way forward through climate finance and parallel universes, at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Nick Nuttall is Communications Director and Spokesperson for the UN Environment Programme headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also the spokesperson, principal speechwriter and creative writer for UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner.</p>
<p>"We need to change rules of the game. The rules are not working in favor of climate change."</p>
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<p>Yvo De Boer stressed the need to look at multiple environmental threats, including water, energy and climate change, at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.</p>
<p>Yvo de Boer (born June 12, 1954) was appointed by then Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 4 September 2006 to 1 July 2010. He resigned in 2010 to join KPMG as its Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability and global ambassador. In 2011, he was appointed to chair the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.</p>
<p>Alongside his work for KPMG, de Boer is currently a Professional Fellow at the University of Maastricht and is a certified mediator. He is a Member of the Board of the Centre for Clean Air Policy, a Council Member of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, a member of the Green Growth Leaders, a member of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative steering group, a Board Member of the Carbon Markets International Association, a member of the International Advisory Group of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, as well as a Board member of the Carbon Markets International Association. Mr. de Boer received a knighthood from her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in 2009 and the Dutch Climate Award in 2010.</p>
<p>"There is a massive fear to be a first mover, to begin, to drive that change."</p>
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<p>Michael Williams gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the latest IPCC report at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Michael is the Chief of Communications and Public Affairs at the World Meteorological Organization.</p>
<p>"Human influence on the climate is clear."</p>
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<p>Camilla Torpe gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the LEGO Build The Change initiative at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Camilla Torpe is event manager for LEGO, the world-renowned children's toy company. The Sweden-born Torpe began working for the LEGO Group in 1976 when she was a waitress in LEGOLAND Park. After raising three children with her Danish husband, she returned to the LEGO Group and has worked there for the past 23 years. Two of her recent events included "LEGO Build the Change" and the "LEGO Inside Tour."</p>
<p>"Our vision from LEGO is to develop the builders of tomorrow and empowering children to build what they want to see in their future."</p>
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<p>Michelle Kovacevic held a Pecha Kucha talk on science communication at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Michelle is a science communicator with an honours degree in neuroscience from the University Of Melbourne, Australia. She has experience across many science communication platforms including magazines, radio, presenting (to students, policymakers and practitioners), corporate PR, academia and capacity building. Michelle is currently the editor of the Forests News blog and coordinates CIFOR's multilingual social media channels.</p>
<p>"Communications can be building awareness, motivation, self-belief, knowledge and skills."</p>
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<p>Geoff Barnard held a Pecha Kucha talk on the climate knowledge platform at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Geoff Barnard helped develop CDKN's approach to communications as leader of its knowledge management team. He now plays an advisory role, focusing particularly on learning, and CDKN's work with think tanks and other knowledge brokers. He is closely involved in the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, and chairs the Steering Group that coordinates its events and activities.</p>
<p>"We are wasting time when time is so precious right now."</p>
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<p>Moritz Weigel held a Pecha Kucha talk on the United Nations Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness activities at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Moritz Weigel is an Associate Programme at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.</p>
<p>"Education and awareness are absolutely key for bringing about the fundamental changes in the way we think and act that we need for building a sustainable future for all of us."</p>
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<p>Stefan Maard gives a strong presentation on the role of business in tackling climate change and driving for climate action, with a introduction video by Peter Bakker.</p>
<p>Peter Bakker is the President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Peter is a respected leader in corporate responsibility. He is the recipient of Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009 and the SAM Sustainability Leadership Award in 2010, and is a UN WFP Ambassador Against Hunger.</p>
<p>Stefan Maard is Senior Advisor for Business Development at Novozymes. Stefan identifies and develops opportunities for Novozymes to engage in frontier markets. As an intrapreneur, Stefan develops new business concepts and innovative business models for Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets, incubating commercial partnerships that deploy biotech solutions to help alleviate poverty and protect the environment.</p>
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<p>Students from I LO Karol Marcinkowski, Poznan, XIV LO Stanisław Staszic, Warsaw and V LO August Witkowski, Cracow, read a pledge at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.</p>
<p>Roch Jasielski, Piotr Brachowicz and Karolina Gumiezna jointly declared "We are fully aware that climate change is a dangerous threat not just to our generation, but to our sons and daughters, and all future generations."</p>
<p>We will 'Be The Movement'! Right here, right now, together!</p>
<p><a href="http://connect4climate.org/resources/be-the-movement">Find out more about the workshop</a> and download the <a href="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19609318/knowledge4cl… Report</a>.</p>

Promoting environmental sustainability is a defining element of Italian craftsmanship - even in the fashion industry.

While official policy-makers and intergovernmental bodies struggle to establish the agreements and frameworks that could, in a few bold strokes, free us from our carbon dependency, a revolution by 10,000 cuts is already taking effect in the private sector.
It is happening in the supply-chains of some of the world's largest corporations. Companies that in the past regarded sustainability and the green agenda as anti-business are beginning to embrace these concepts as a necessity for survival and an opportunity to build competitive advantage.
According to calculations by the CDP, the scope 1 and 2 emissions of G500 companies equates to roughly 10% of global emissions. For most companies, scope 3 emissions, including their supply-chains, are far bigger still. So maximising efficiencies across these supply-chains, re-engineering them as closed energy and resource loops, would make a huge difference. Fortunately, this is already happening, not by implementing a few big, silver bullet reforms, but by making thousands of small changes.
Adapted social media technology is enabling what we at 2degrees call "fully-linked collaboration". This is where anybody in a company with a problem or challenge can quickly and easily find someone else from another company with relevant experience, or even the very solution that they need.
This new, super-connectivity allows best practices to be identified, shared and disseminated very rapidly. In food manufacturing, in Europe alone, it is estimated that €22.5bn could be savedin this way by implementing best practices in energy management across the supply chain. (See 'Joining Forces – the case for collaboration').
However, this is not easy. It requires large-scale sharing of experience, know-how and insights, often between competitors. It requires an online platform, facilitation and processes to enable fully-linked collaboration.
Here are eight non-technology lessons we have learnt from doing this with our clients (including Asda-Walmart, Bord Bia, GlaxoSmithKline, Kingfisher, Royal Bank of Scotland, Tesco) that we believe are critical to making fully-linked collaboration work within a supply chain. They are written from the perspective of the business customer at the top of the value chain.
1. Fully-linked collaboration programmes need to be built from the perspective of maximising value for your suppliers. Get that right, and communicate it effectively, and you will drive engagement by the suppliers. Focus primarily on your needs and you make it hard for yourself. Ever wondered why asking for data from suppliers is so difficult?
2. The most important stakeholders to get involved are the operational managers (those practical folks with responsibility for energy, factory sites, production lines, packaging, waste, etc.). These are generally the out-of-sight individuals with the responsibility, challenges and collective know-how to unlock the hidden savings and reduce impacts. Make your programmes solve their problems and unlock their wisdom.
3. To be really effective, programmes have to be focused on a common measurable objective that all suppliers can get behind. This is where you, the customer, must lead. As an example, in our work with Asda-Walmart's Sustain and Save Exchange, the focus is on making its food supply chain the best-invested, most resilient and sustainable one out there with a clear target of $1bn cost reduction.
4. Benchmarking peers and competitors, as a group, is a very powerful way to get skeptics engaged. Suppliers tend to pay attention and join in if you can show them they are less energy efficient than their direct competitors and promise to share the best practices they are missing.
5. To be in a position where companies are prepared to share their best practices with competitors you need to have commercial teams leading (not CSR), providing a compelling incentive for suppliers to share. The incentive could be a reward in the form of: better terms, longer contracts, more time spent on joint promotions, etc.
6. Only so much happens without active facilitation. This is best done by a third party (we would say that, but see below). You need someone who understands the suppliers as companies and individuals, is trusted and can constantly connect the dots, link people up and encourage participation.
7. Use collaborative purchasing to solve common problems within the supply-chain and take advantage of the potential scale to drive down the cost of solutions. This also creates an important focal point of action for all the knowledge-sharing. As an example, Tesco's Buying Club saves its suppliers on average 25% off the cost of installing LED lights retrofitted into distribution centers. (LED lights cut the cost of electricity and carbon for lighting about 60%.)
8. The big breakthroughs (like Tesco's Buying Club, above) won't happen openly in front of the customer. Suppliers are too nervous that any savings they might make will be stripped away in negotiation if their customers know about them.
This is a further reason why you need third-party, trusted facilitation, that can enable, what some call, blind collaboration where data is collected anonymously so that suppliers feel they can keep most, if not all, of the savings they make.
When all eight of these principles are applied, fully-linked collaboration takes place and something remarkable happens: Firstly, engagement and collaboration levels amongst suppliers soar, with often more than 70% of the key operational management participating, at least once a month. Secondly, suppliers make investments in energy, waste and water reduction initiatives that they would not otherwise make.
In fact, we now have evidence that for every $1 the customer invests in managing fully-linked collaboration programmes, suppliers can invest up to $20, and make savings of $40 (over five years).
If we do this on a large scale, we will soon be removing billions of dollars in costs and related impacts from our supply chains. These cost reductions, as well as the energy and resource efficiencies put in place, will go at least part of the way to make up for the lack of attention to environmental care-taking from our public policy-makers.
Article was originally posted on the Guardian

The mini-series is the brainchild of James Cameron (producer of Titanic and Avatar) and uses celebrities and high-profile journalists, such as Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Freidman and Leslie Stahl, as correspondents to raise awareness about the human impact of climate change today.

Connect4Climate joins with Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Sustainability Department and Fluminense Federal University for the Crackle Cinema Green Project to inspire young filmmakers.
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The World Bank’s Connect4Climate initiative is joining Sony Picture Television’s multi-platform entertainment network Crackle and Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, to launch the Cinema Green Project, a series of five short films airing on Crackle’s platforms in Brazil. With the aim to nurture the talent of Brazilian cinema students and raise awareness about environmental sustainability, Crackle funded five short films presented by UFF film students. This is a first step towards a global initiative.
A committee of Crackle’s programming team and professionals in the film industry, including filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, and actors Alessandra Negrini and Rodrigo Santoro, selected the scripts for the short films. According to Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles, “The Cinema Green Project is an exciting opportunity for young filmmakers to engage in environmental defense and help change the usual production practices of the film industry.”
Crackle’s seed initiative, Cinema Green Project, strives to motivate the public to take a more conscious attitude towards the environment. There are three documentaries and two fiction works that address issues such as responsible consumer practices, environmental preservation, and sustainable transport.

By YeJin Kim
Everyday, the world makes a lot of garbage. The volume of garbage is increasing rapidly, and it is now hard to stop without transformational changes in how we use and reuse resources. We face increasing responsibilities to find groundbreaking solutions to the waste we make daily.