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1.5C: The Record We Must Not Break
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Launched at the "Climate Change: What the Olympics have to do with that" symposium at 

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<p style="text-align: center;">Raise your hand for the world:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/raiseyourhand.PNG" style="width: 600px; height: 384px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Photo Credit: 1.5C Campaign.</em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Take a picture of 1.5&deg;C on your hand like in this photo.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Send a copy by email to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:renee.miller@purpose.com">Renee</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:joao.talocchi@purpose.com">Joao</a>&nbsp;at Purpose to be uploaded at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.1o5c.org/&quot; target="_blank">www.1o5c.org</a>.</p&gt;

<p style="text-align: center;">After July 28th post it on<strong>&nbsp;Twitter, Instagram &amp; Facebook</strong>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C&nbsp;and&nbsp;#Sport4Climate.</strong><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">Hold This Sign For The World:</p>

<p style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/sign.PNG" style="width: 600px; height: 451px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>Photo Credit: 1.5C Campaign</em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Print the campaign file and take a photo holding this sign. Materials are available in 3 languages here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/err5s6p7kmke9qu/1.5C_A4_Type_English.jpg?dl=0… href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xs4zktg2x30kh8q/1.5C_A4_Type_French.jpg?dl=0"… href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vrbd1l1skyhqcqh/1.5C_A4_Type_Portuguese.jpg?d…;

<p style="text-align: center;">Send a copy to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:renee.miller@purpose.com">Renee</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:joao.talocchi@purpose.com">Joao</a>&nbsp;at Purpose to be uploaded at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.1o5c.org/">www.1o5c.org</a>.</p&gt;

<p style="text-align: center;">Post it on&nbsp;<strong>Twitter, Instagram &amp; Facebook</strong>&nbsp;using the&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C and #Sport4Climate.</strong></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">Share your Video with the World:</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Record a 10&rsquo; &ndash; 30&rsquo; second video of yourself telling the world why you&rsquo;re standing up for climate change and why 1.5&deg;C is the record we must not break.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Send a copy to&nbsp;<a href="mailto:renee.miller@purpose.com">Renee</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:joao.talocchi@purpose.com">Joao</a>&nbsp;at Purpose to upload at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.1o5c.org/">www.1o5c.org</a>.</p&gt;

<p style="text-align: center;">Post it on <strong>Twitter, Instagram &amp; Facebook</strong> using <strong>#1o5C and #Sport4Climate.</strong></p>

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<p>Suggested Tweets &amp;&nbsp;Short Messages:</p>

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<li><strong>#Sport4Climate</strong>&nbsp;Competing for Gold. United for #ClimateAction.&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C</strong></li>
<li>The smallest temperature increase can make the biggest difference for some people&acute;s survival.&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C</strong></li>
<li>#ClimateChange affects all, the poor the most. Stay below&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C with #Sport4Climate</strong></li>
<li>Keeping&nbsp;#GlobalWarming&nbsp;below 1.5C keeps us in the race.<strong>&nbsp;#1o5C #Sport4Climate</strong></li>
<li>Raise the bar. Not the Sea Level.&nbsp;<strong>#1o5C</strong></li>
<li>#ClimateChange: I am doing my part to stay below <strong>#1o5C</strong>.<strong>&nbsp;#Sport4Climate</strong></li>
<li><strong>#Sport4Climate</strong>&nbsp;is United for Climate. Support a <strong>#1o5C </strong>target</li>
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<p>Download the&nbsp;<a href="http://connect4climate.org/publication/%E2%80%9815c-record-we-must-not-…; target="_blank">Info Pack</a>&nbsp;of the 1.5C: The Record We Must Not Break Campaign.</p>

Climate Change: What The Olympics have to do with it?

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Climate change and extreme weather events threaten the viability of much of global sport as it’s currently played, either in the back yard, at local grounds, or in professional tournaments.

Film4Climate Competition Social Media Calendar

The Film4Climate Global Video Competition is 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.

The winners, selected by a jury chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci, and including other preeminent directors, producers, writers and political leaders, will be announced at a high-profile awards ceremony at the United Nations COP22 Climate Summit in Marrakesh, Morocco in November.

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World Environmental Day 2016: Think Global. Act Local.
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Climate change? Terrorism? The Global financial crisis? Nuclear warfare? Pandemics? All of these are global. We are confronted with problems that are not just confined to our boundaries, but are global in nature. With advances in technology, we are now being exposed to other cultures through new media resources without even buying a plane ticket. The world has truly become a global village. We are socially, economically and environmentally married to other countries. Locally, we crave for change; globally, we yearn for a revolution. Fuel prices are ridiculous, tomatoes may become extinct, our education system is marred with deficiencies, and our values are putrescent.

As much as we complain about plight, nothing changes until we strap on our boots and walk the walk. Our daunting problems should not stop us from taking action in minute ways. The solution is very simple: Think Global. Act Local.


Photo Credit: Green Campus Initiative.

Our incalculable problems as a nation accelerate our need for piecemeal local initiatives to tackle societal problems. Endurance and patience, as forms of struggle, are greatly ignored. I am fortunate to stay in a rural community and what I have learned over the years is that the change we all want to see in Nigeria begins with us rolling up our sleeves and contributing our time and expertise to effect the desired change. When you ask an average Nigerian to volunteer or to engage positively in their local communities, they simply ask “what is in it for me?”


Photo Credit: Green Campus Initiative.

Yet we blame the government for all our woes, when sometimes all we have to do is just show up. The Greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali once said: “The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

Therefore, in practicing what we are preaching, the Green Campus Initiative went in search of a Primary School to renovate and commemorate the 2016 World Environmental Day (#WED2016), and when we contacted the Orimolade Community Primary School in Nigeria, we felt a deep connection. Thanks to social media, over 50 citizens volunteered their time to help the Green Campus Initiative bring this dream to life. I still have hope in our youth. Today, we choose life. We left our cell phones and tablets behind, and spent time in our community doing something positive while bringing people together in physical proximity through face-to-face interactions.

Volunteers played football and games with the locals barefoot after planting flowers, painting the classrooms, cutting the grass and drawing a beautiful mural on the walls. This was certainly the kind of experience that one remembers fondly and I am thrilled to have been part of #WED2016.


Photo Credit: Green Campus Initiative.

Festival of Participation

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The Festival of Participation is promoted by Italia, Sveglia! (Italy, Wake up!), an alliance of three organizations, ActionAid, Cittadinanzattiva and Slow Food Italia and in cooperation with the Municipality of L’Aquila. "Italia, Sveglia!" has the purpose of contributing to the transformation of the nation, through the citizens active role and participation, and the protection of their rights.

Connect4Climate is a World Bank Group Multi-Donor Trust Fund powered by Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development that drives climate action through advocacy, partnerships, and creative communications.

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