What YOU Can Do About Climate Change

 

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.

Climate Change 2013 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis

 

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

The World's Cryosphere Is In Danger From Climate Change

 

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

Jim Yong Kim’s Speech at Right Here Right Now

[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.

Action4Climate Support Messages
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Award-winning film directors and producers, and international organization representatives will select the Action4Climate winning entries - see their climate messages below.

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Atom Egoyan
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/&quot; target="_blank">Exotica</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120255&quot; target="_blank">The Sweet Hereafter</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352824&quot; target="_blank">Chloe</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89530761]</p&gt;

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&quot;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.&quot;</strong></p>

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Fernando Meirelles
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/&quot; target="_blank">City of God</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/&quot; target="_blank">The Constant Gardener</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320844]</p&gt;

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&quot;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.&quot;</strong></p>

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Mika Kaurismaki
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119565/&quot; target="_blank">L.A. Without a Map</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1543029/&quot; target="_blank">Mama Africa</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1864557/&quot; target="_blank">North Road</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320850]</p&gt;

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&quot;We human beings are very likely the cause of this global warming. This will destroy our planet, slowly but surely, unless we do something.&quot;</strong></p>

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Pablo Trapero
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542852/&quot; target="_blank">Carancho</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132324/&quot; target="_blank">White Elephant</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320852]</p&gt;

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<p align="center"><strong>&quot;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.&quot;</strong></p>

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Wim Wenders
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186508/&quot; target="_blank">Buena Vista Social Club</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368287/&quot; target="_blank">The Soul of a Man</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89321405]</p&gt;

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&quot;To combat climate change is one of the major tasks of our generation.&quot;</strong></p>

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Bernardo Bertolucci
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<p>Director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/&quot; target="_blank">The Last Emperor</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117737/&quot; target="_blank">Stealing Beauty</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309987/&quot; target="_blank">The Dreamers</a></p>

<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89320843]</p&gt;

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&quot;There is no doubt the Earth is in danger. I am looking forward with many other people to see testimonies about the climate changes.&quot;</strong></p>

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Compilation of messages by Meirelles, Wenders, Kaurismaki & Bertolucci
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<p>[video:https://vimeo.com/89530760]</p&gt;

CISP supporting Connect4Climate in Somalia

The International Committee for the Development of People (CISP) joined the World Bank’s effort in support of the Connect4Climate initiative, to raise awareness about climate change in Somalia.

Credit: Connect4Climate and CISP. 

Communication pour le développement de la diffusion des technologies agricoles et forestières au Bas-Congo

Les mesures environnementales pour le développement durable liées à l’adaptation au changement climatique, à la gestion des bassins versants, à la gestion des risques de catastrophes, au développement territorial participatif, etc., nécessitent la mise en place de processus, d’outils et de méthodes de communication pour la sensibilisation, le partage des connaissances et la participation communautaire.

Communication Assessment and Action Plan for the LACC Project in Bangladesh

Communication is a key to promoting sustainable development. Communication for Development or ComDev, an approach applied by FAO that combines a variety of participatory communication processes and tools, ranging from rural radio to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), is central to this task.