
Connect4Climate Winners Slideshow
Action4Climate Support Messages
[video:https://vimeo.com/125683047]
Pope Francis called on citizens all over the world to take care of the planet and not to exploit its resources. He emphasized that the “earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated.”
Facilitated by Connect4Climate, the Pope recorded the call to action message at the end of his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, noting that on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day.
Source: Connect4Climate 2011 Competition by Max Thabiso Edkins, ClimateConscious
Shortlisted submissions to the Connect4Climate iChange 30-second video competition.
Reducing your carbon footprint just got easier. This video uses animations and humour to teach people how they can personally help prevent global warming.
This is just one of the free educational products available in the "Climate Insights 101" series. Created by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) -- a collaboration of British Columbia's four research intensive universities.
The IPCC has produced a video on its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The first part on the Working Group I contribution to AR5 is now available. The other parts will be released with the successive approvals of the other two Working Group contributions and the Synthesis Report in the course of 2014.
Source: IPCC, 2013
Rising temperatures affect ice and snow areas the most. The results could be disastrous, increasing the dangers of flood, famine and other catastrophes. By acting now to reduce black carbon and methane we could slow the process.
Source: World Bank, 2013
[video:https://youtu.be/_iTP_IBkm5I?t=4m00s]
Jim Yong Kim's held a speech at the Connect4Climate Right Here Right Now event, March 1, 2013:
I’m here today deliver a very simple message: The World Bank is committed to tackling climate change. But more than anything else, we are committed to tackling climate change because it affects the people we care about most.
Award-winning film directors and producers, and international organization representatives will select the Action4Climate winning entries - see their climate messages below.
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/" target="_blank">Exotica</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120255" target="_blank">The Sweet Hereafter</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352824" target="_blank">Chloe</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89530761]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"I am here to really talk about this amazing project, because it is a call to arms to filmmakers to use their skills as storytellers. To tell one of the most important stories of our time, which is about climate change."</strong></p>
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/" target="_blank">City of God</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/" target="_blank">The Constant Gardener</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320844]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"As we know, climate change is the biggest challenge humankind will face in the next century and what has to be done to mitigate the effects of climate change must start with us, from bottom to top."</strong></p>
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119565/" target="_blank">L.A. Without a Map</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1543029/" target="_blank">Mama Africa</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1864557/" target="_blank">North Road</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320850]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"We human beings are very likely the cause of this global warming. This will destroy our planet, slowly but surely, unless we do something."</strong></p>
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542852/" target="_blank">Carancho</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132324/" target="_blank">White Elephant</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320852]</p>
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<p align="center"><strong>"We all know and suffer from the fact that the climate is changing. It is no longer a theory or a hypothesis: it is a fact."</strong></p>
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186508/" target="_blank">Buena Vista Social Club</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368287/" target="_blank">The Soul of a Man</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89321405]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"To combat climate change is one of the major tasks of our generation."</strong></p>
<p>Director of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/" target="_blank">The Last Emperor</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117737/" target="_blank">Stealing Beauty</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309987/" target="_blank">The Dreamers</a></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320843]</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"There is no doubt the Earth is in danger. I am looking forward with many other people to see testimonies about the climate changes."</strong></p>
<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89530760]</p>