In December 2015, acting under the UNFCCC, 195 nations negotiated the Paris Agreement, committing to do what it takes to keep temperature increases from rising more than 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
The Paris Agreement, a generation in the making, is the most ambitious global resolution on climate change, and the first time in history that nearly every country agreed to work toward a fossil-fuel-free world.
But that was just the beginning. The Paris Agreement relies upon a ratchet mechanism, in which commitments must be increased every five years. That makes 2018 a critical year for climate action; it marks the midpoint between the ink drying on the Paris Agreement and the next agreed step for raising the bar toward achieving the well below 2C temperature target while striving for 1.5C. It is the year to step up climate action and ambition globally, across all sectors of the economy in support of Paris and thus all the sustainable development goals.
In April 2017, Mission 2020 launched a global campaign, convened by former UN climate chief and lead negotiator for the Paris Agreement, Christiana Figueres. The campaign was designed to inject urgency into efforts to address climate change after experts marked the year 2020 as the critical turning point by which we must bend the curve of carbon emissions.
The world community has also agreed to meet 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals, by 2030, including ending poverty and hunger, and ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.
If we are late to the 2020 milestone, and emissions have not begun a steady decline by then, we will all but eliminate our chance to stay within the agreed range of a 1.5C to 2C temperature rise, beyond which the impacts we see already – record Arctic ice melting, famine-inducing drought in Africa, unprecedented coral-reef bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef – are likely to worsen, impacting everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
Missing the 2020 milestone would also put meeting all the Global Goals at risk.
A rise of 2 degrees risks exacerbating mass migration, hampering progress made against diseases such as malaria, inducing higher levels of poverty and therefore lowering the chance for full education and gender equality. All this shows us that the window of opportunity for urgent action to meet the 2020 climate turning point is now.
This unique opportunity to accelerate climate action to ensure success for all the sustainable development goals will generate a host of co-benefits, including in health, energy, and food security, and jobs - providing a basis for shared prosperity and financial stability for all.
There is a plan with deliverables that would put the world on track by 2020 to both protect the Paris Agreement in the short term and achieve its goals in the longer term.
We must massively accelerate climate action in the period from now to 2020.
This is a task for every business, investor, city, region and country and we must call them to it with determination and clarity.
The logo we have developed wraps the Global Goal 13 (on climate action) and it’s dark green identifying colour around the 17 goals to represent the fact that all the Global Goals are relying on accelerated climate action.
Accelerating climate action to ensure success for all the sustainable development goals is a vital message, not simply a logo, and it unites the climate and development sectors.
Films have an undoubted power to put spectators right into different situations and environments, and actualities such as climate change can be perceived in a more realistic way waking up collective consciences to act on crucial challenges facing humanity. Deauville Green Awards acknowledged the power of film, and since 2012 has been an active player in showcasing and awarding the best-submitted films on sustainability.
“Films are the best way to capture the attention of various audiences, share information with them, and generate deep emotions. In a post-factual era where everyone is constantly confronted to hundreds of messages and signals, scientific messages or green content must benefit from the strength and impact potential of films and audio-visual communication.”
Jonathan Peynet, Coordinator, Deauville Green Awards
Deauville Green Awards has three core competitions - SPOT, the Grand Prix for the best public awareness campaign; INFO, the Grand Prix for the best corporate film; and DOCU, the Grand Prix for the best documentary film. Within each of the competitions, 14 thematic categories cover specific fields on sustainability, eco-innovations, and social responsibility.
Submit your ad, film, or documentary until April 27
Connect4Climate’s Program Manager Giulia Braga is a jury member for the SPOT - Short Awareness Messages competition. Connect4Climate has been committed to promoting more exposure to climate and sustainability issues in both the content and production of films under its Film4Climate banner.
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Each year, almost 500 films from 50 different countries are submitted to Deauville Green Awards. Companies, institutions, NGOs, and communities have then the chance to promote good practices in a hope to offer a more sustainable, fairer world to future generations. The impressive number of films submitted show the “growing importance of environmental issues in the public space worldwide and reveal the key role of image and film in the communication on sustainability," Jonathan Peynet states.
“More and more people worldwide, filmmakers or fellow citizens like you and me, are disappointed by the lack of action to protect our planet and realized they have the tools to spread the word,” Peynet.
This year’s Deauville Green Awards will take place on June 19-20 in Deauville, France. “We expect hundreds of inspiring films from all over the world, interesting debates around Water following up on the World Water Forum in Brasília, many free screenings for kids, and an exceptional figurehead, the world famous North and South Pole explorer Jean-Louis Etienne,” Peynet added.
The deadline to register your green ad, corporate film, or documentary ends this Friday, April 27.
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Cinema Planeta International Film and Environment Festival celebrates this year its 10th edition from April 24 to 29, 2018. Responsible consumption is in the spotlight.
Each cycle is an opportunity to reflect. In the past ten years, Cinema Planeta AC has built a cultural and educational movement based on film, art, and science that provides the public the tools to be better informed and make conscious and reasoned decisions.
The focus on the environment, education, and work in the field of communications led Cinema Planeta being awarded Nezahualcoyotl Prize for Nature Conservation by the Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) in 2010, and Prize of Ecology and Environment on the part of the Miguel Alemán A.C. Foundation, in 2017.
Last year, Cinema Planeta produced its first documentary Nahui Ollin, Sol de Movimiento premiered at the Guadalajara Film Festival and presented at various festivals in Mexico and Europe. In 2018, Cinema Planeta will present the new production named El mar Incendiado by director Carlos Armella.
Our patterns of consumption and production generate waste on the one hand and a shortage of essential products on the other. That is why this year Cinema Planeta emphasizes Responsible Consumption - how we decide what goods and services to consume, taking into account price, quality, social, and labor characteristics of its production and, of course, the environmental consequences and impacts.
Connect4Climate Program Manager Giulia Braga was invited to be part of the Mexican Official Selection Jury.
The Cinema Planet opening event was at the Chapultepec Ecological Park in Cuernavaca on Tuesday, April 24, at 8 pm.
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On April 25 at 8:30 pm at the Old Railway Station of Cuernavaca, Cinema Planeta, in collaboration with the Film Library of the UNAM, will project a series of silent films set to music by Celso Duarte and the Corridistas Surianos.
On Thursday, April 26 at 11:30 pm, the Festival focuses on the Noche of Terror (Night of Terror) with the screening of the documentary Rats, from the United States, directed by Morgan Spurlock.
On April 27 at 8 pm, at the Teopanzolco Cultural Center, Cinema Planeta will have a special event with the presentation of the film Dusk Chorus from Italy and Belgium, directed by Nika Saravanja and Alessandro D'Emilia. This film will take you to the sounds of the Amazon.
The touching film Jane, directed by Brett Morgen with unpublished images of the life of Jane Goodall, will be screened at the awards ceremony on April 28 at 8 pm.
Within the selection of Mundos (Worlds), the international films section, Cinema Planet will present the retrospective of the acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger to include his documentary trilogy about the world of work - Workingman’s Death, Megacities, and Whores’ Glory - as well as his latest film Untitled finished after his death in Africa after contracting malaria. The Ecos section invites the International Environmental Film Festival (FINCA) of Argentina. Tierra, section dedicated to Mexican films, will screen five feature films and 12 shorts. Palomitas, a children's film section, will present beautiful stories from Turkey, Iran, the United States and China. Cuenca, the section created to promote the production of environmental films from the Balsas River area, will feature four short films and three feature films.
The 10th edition of the Cinema Planet Festival takes place thanks to the support and participation of the Fideicomiso de Turismo de Morelos, Government of the State of Morelos, Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources, Cineteca Naciona, Mexican Institute of Cinematography, Ministry of Culture of the State of Morelos, Universidad Autónoma of the State of Morelos, Municipal Government of Cuernavaca, Municipal Government of Cuautla, Green Film Network, the culture institutes of the embassies of France, Austria and Portugal in Mexico, Cinemex, and institutions, educational centers, companies and media.
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10:00 am-9:00 pm at Materials Village, Via Tortona, 27
Press Review from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Interviews and debates from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm 10:00 am-10:00 pm at “Living Nature” pavilion, Palazzo Reale (Piazza del Duomo) Interviews and debates from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm 9:30 am-6:30pm at Salone del Mobile, Fiera Milano, S.S. del Sempione 28, Rho Milano Interviews inside the Pavilions of Rho Fiera from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
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