This believes Spencer Sharp, filmmaker, and producer of “Three Seconds,” first prize short-film winner of the Film4Climate Global Video Competition.
Photography has the power to capture moments, disclose realities and to convey messages to the world. It carries this responsibility throughout time, long after people have forgotten about the event.
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>1.</strong> Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/connect4climate/" target="_blank">@Connect4Climate </a>on Instagram</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"><strong> 2. </strong>Take a photo related with the presented theme, and share it on Instagram. The photo must be original – i.e. you must be the photographer. Your photos are governed under the <a href="https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511" target="_blank">Instagram terms of use</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>3.</strong> In the caption describe what you see, where the photo was taken, and what it means to you.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <strong>4. </strong>Use the hashtag #Photo4Climate.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/C4C-drop-green.png" style="font-size: 13.008000373840332px; width: 25px; height: 17px;"> <u><strong>5.</strong> Don’t forget to set your account to “public”.</u></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/Photo4Climateisback.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 667px;"></p>
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<li>Judging criteria for photo winner:
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<li>Power of the photograph and its caption or narrative (includes creativity and the story the photo tells related to climate change and the current theme);</li>
<li>Potential impact on the challenge objectives of raising awareness about climate change issues and communicating a personal climate change story or local climate change solution;</li>
<li>Originality;</li>
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<li value="2">Finalist photo will:
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<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate Instagram page on Wednesday;</li>
<li>Be featured in a photo album on the Connect4Climate Facebook page;</li>
<li>Be featured in Connect4Climate Twitter account;</li>
<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate website as an article;</li>
<li>Be featured on Connect4Climate Flickr account;</li>
<li>Be included on our newsletter to all our partners.</li>
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<li value="3">You can submit as many photos you want.</li>
<li value="4">Connect4Climate reserves the right to use these images on our social media channels, website, at events for Connect4Climate with photo credit/Instagram account name of submitter.</li>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Share your story with us. Let’s raise awareness about climate change together!</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/upload/Photo4Climat…; target="_blank">Help us spread the word!</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/Photo4Climate-Rivers-And-Lakes.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sit by a river. Find peace and meaning in the rhythm of the lifeblood of the Earth.</em></p>
<p>This week's theme is "<strong>Lakes and Rivers</strong>." Don't forget to share your climate story on Instagram with the hashtag #Photo4Climate until Tuesday, April 3 (EST)!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>WINNER:</strong></u></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BR82AZ8AXaQ/?taken-by=ivanbruce1" target="_blank">Ivan Bruce</a> is the #Photo4Climate winner of the theme Rivers and Lakes, showing the impact of discarded waste in Ibadan's rivers in Nigeria.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BR82AZ8AXaQ/" target="_blank"><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Ivan-Bruce-Photo4Climate-Winner-Rivers-Lakes.jpg" style="width: 799px; height: 800px;"></strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Discarded waste in Ibadan's rivers significantly contribute to the cities high exposure to flooding," Ivan Bruce wrote.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Photo4Climate-Food-Lifestyle.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Create healthy habits, not restrictions. - unknown</em></p>
<p><strong>"Food and Lifestyle"</strong> is this week's theme. Don't forget to share your climate story on Instagram with the hashtag #Photo4Climate until Tuesday, April 18 (EST).</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><u><strong>WINNER:</strong></u></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BS7s05ugLzL/">Abha</a>, from Los Angeles, USA won this week’s Photo4Climate #Food and #Lifestyle. Abha and her family are trying to tackle climate change by eating more wisely, purchasing, for example, locally grown plant-based food, recycling waste and using less water. Congratulations! See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Winner-FL-Banner.PNG" style="width: 1000px; height: 684px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"In regards to food, my family has been trying to contribute by eating more wisely such as more locally grown plant-based foods, recycling waste, using less water and not wasting food..." said Abha.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color:#000000;">The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise. – Rumi</span></em></p>
<p>As the world comes together to celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd, this week’s Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme is all about <strong>"Earth Day"</strong>. Add the #Photo4Climate hashtag to your picture and let us know how your 2017 Earth Day went.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p>Michael Jabbi, from Uganda, won this week’s Photo4Climate on #EarthDay. The photo shows us a man carrying drums of water. Access to water is an issue faced by many countries across Africa. </p>
<p>Congratulations! See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/images/Michael%20Jabbi_Uganda_May1.JPG" style="width: 1000px; height: 563px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/images/photo4climat…; style="width: 1000px; height: 353px;"></p>
<p>In the lead-up to the <strong>#All4TheGreen G7 Environment Week in Bologna</strong> - a week dedicated to discussing and celebrating the environment during the G7 Summit, this upcoming June -, Connect4Climate invites everyone who is passionate about the planet, the environment and everything around them to share their most striking photographs as a way to declare and celebrate the importance of Our Common Home.</p>
<p>Contestants are asked to submit their visual masterpieces by sharing them on their Instagram account using the #All4TheGreen hashtag. Add a descriptive caption, describing what you see, where the photo was taken, and what it means to you. What’s important to you for green progress? What is your pledge for the environment? What is #All4TheGreen? Capture that perfect moment and share it with the world!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Learn more about this contest <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiative/photo4climate-contest-are-yo…; target="_blank">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="#Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation" src="/sites/default/files/images/legacy/%23Photo4Climate-Biodiversity-Wildlife-Conservation.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 233px;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Biodiversity is the way so don't let nature go astray</em></p>
<p>This week’s Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme is about "<strong>Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation</strong>." Add the <strong>#Photo4Climate</strong> hashtag to your picture and share with us your view on this topic.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p>Congratulations to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/saldana_08/">Santiago Aldana</a>, from Mexico, the winner of this week’s #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge - on the #Biodiversity and #Wildlife Conservation's theme. Santiago´s photo shows us wild horses strolling on the beach, quoting the Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, taking us to the past full of memories and loneliness: “Shall we let the time stop, see our memories in the seas. And this loneliness, so deep...” See the original picture below:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation Winner - Climate Change" data-delta="1" data-fid="29384" data-media-element="1" src="https://www.connect4climate.org/sites/default/files/upload/saldana_08_2…; style="width: 800px; height: 532px;" title="Photo4Climate Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation Winner - Climate Change" typeof="foaf:Image"></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.”</em> – Alexander von Humboldt</p>
<p>“Habitat and Ecosystems” will be the next week’s theme for the Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge. Add the #Photo4Climate hashtag to your picture and share your climate story with us. </p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">WINNER:</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shinesthroughwater/">Deborah Harford</a> is the winner of this week´s #Photo4Climate Instagram Challenge theme: #Habitat/Ecosystem.<br>
Deborah´s photo show us a performance art by Still Moon Arts Society, in Vancouver, Canada. The group celebrated the return of chum salmon to spawn in Still Creek for the 4th year consecutive, a result of the efforts of restoration and conservation done by the city since 2002. Deborah says this process of “rewilding” is a “win-win for planet and local species” since it “helps with urban adaptation to climate change impacts such as extreme heat and flooding”. Congratulations Deborah Harford!<br>
See the picture below:</p>
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The World Bank’s Connect4Climate program supported to implement a series of activities during the twenty-second session of the Conference of Parties (COP 22), the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1) in Marrakesh, Morocco, focusing on the critical role that young people and the public at large have in mobilizing climate solutions.
NEW YORK - The first edition of the Youth Solutions Report, which identifies 50 youth-led projects aiming to solve the world’s toughest problems, was released today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The report, produced by the youth initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Youth) identifies and celebrates youth-led projects and ground-breaking ideas to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It reflects a growing interest in supporting and scaling innovative solutions to address problems such as poverty, inequality, clean and affordable energy, access to healthcare and education, e-participation and waste.
The report highlights the work of youth-led organisations, such as Liter of Light who bring over 750,000 affordable solar lights to 15 countries; the talented team behind BenBen who operate a Blockchain-based land registry that facilitates secure land transactions to encourage investments and transparent land resource management; FinFighters who run a citizen shark science program to collect genetic data and information from Moroccan fishing ports and market; and the group running the SHAPE project using mobile technology to promote citizens’ e-participation in their city’s public life.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, UN Secretary General’s Adviser on the SDGs, and Minister Karen Ellemann, Danish Minister for Equal Opportunities, launched the report during a two-day forum on youth and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The report was produced in partnership with Ashoka, Sustainia, the Resolution Project and Panorama (joint initiative of IUCN and the German government) and has been reviewed by a panel of experts, comprising leading figures from business, civil society and academia.
Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, has supported the initiative. “SDSN Youth and its Youth Solutions Report are excellent examples of initiatives crucial for helping young people realize the full potential of their abilities, innovations and solutions.”
“Today we have the largest generation of youth in history - a powerful force for change. 84 percent of millennials are convinced they have a duty to make the world a better place, and many already are, through socially aware businesses and youth-led campaigns in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.” Mr. Polman said.
Max Thabiso Edkins, Climate Change Expert on the Connect4Climate program of the World Bank Group, highlights that "this generation is the first generation to live with the impacts of climate change and it is the generation that will build a sustainable, low-carbon and resilient future."
"The Youth Solutions Report shows that young people are already building that future. At the Connect4Climate program of the World Bank Group we believe in the power of youth to change the world." Mr. Edkins emphasized.
Siamak Sam Loni, Global Coordinator of SDSN Youth, says that young people must be seen as key stakeholders in the sustainable development debate and that there is a pressing need to acknowledge their essential role in achieving the SDGs.
“Young people are already contributing to the implementation of the SDGs but they face common challenges that prevent them from realizing the full potential of their ideas and solutions, including the lack of visibility, limited access to finance, and the lack of training and technical support. The Youth Solutions Report will help investors, donors and supporters better understand the multi-faceted role of young people in sustainable development and give them additional opportunities to showcase and scale their work.” Mr. Loni said.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was launched at UN Headquarters in September 2015 and adopted by 193 member countries of the UN. The SDGs, which are relevant to all countries, aim to achieve social inclusion, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability.
For more information on the Youth Solutions Report visit: www.youthsolutions.report
For media enquiries and interview requests, please contact: solutions@sdsnyouth.org
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