The #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate Contest’s jury, composed of the renowned photographers Leigh Vogel, Reza Deghati<
Winners of #All4TheGreen Contest announced
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For World Environment Day Bologna opens its doors to the All4TheGreen Week
As World Environment Day is celebrated around the world, in Bologna, the Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti launched the All4TheGreen week of activities with a message to all: “The Paris Agreement should be implemented by all countries, it increases the economic competitiveness of these countries.” His interview on the Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy, launched a week of environmental and climate action in the lead up to the G7 Environment Minister meeting, June 11-12.
The Italian Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti at Piazza Maggiore, Bologna. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate
For the week, June 5-12, more than 70 events will take place around the city to promote the transition to an international green economy. “We need to love our planet as we love ourselves", underlined Antonia Testa, Focolare Movement in Rome, during the first interview of the All4TheGreen SDG Media Zone presented by the Connect4Climate program of the World Bank Group and partners.
Speakers from the private sector, journalists, photographers and implementers of climate solutions took the stage to tell the world what needs to happen in order to protect the environment. "We have reached 66 million people forced to migrate for many factors and climate change is certainly a major one," informed the journalist Luca Attanasio, in a panel with the photographer Kadir Van Lohuizen. "Because of sea level rise, people are leaving. They will be forced to leave. Let's not forget, rising seas do not make a distinction between rich or poor", highlighted Kadir.
In a parallel event, Earth Day Italy awarded media professionals for their work reporting the environment. "We're using this planet as if we have another one," said the organization’s president Pierluigi Sassi during the awards ceremony. Connect4Climate’s program manager, Lucia Grenna, present to award and reminded the audience: "We are the custodians of this planet. To leave a clean future to our kids we must invest in a sustainable world."
Connect4Climate’s program manager, Lucia Grenna, addresses the audience in Bologna. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate
“The environment is a certainly a factor unifying countries and its people,” said Minister Galletti, in closing the awards ceremony. The Minister reminded all that All4TheGreen activities will continue all week, featuring environmental discussion, concerts, solar-powered film screenings, debates, announcements, art installations and other exciting events.
Bologna is the World Capital for the Environment with All4TheGreen. Photo Credits: Riccardo Savi/Connect4Climate
Join Connect4Climate and partners in support of All4TheGreen, as we highlight the need to transition to a low-carbon, resilient and sustainable future. We are all for the green on World Environment Day and beyond.
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G7 Environment discussions brought to a global audience by the SDG Media Zone/All4TheGreen Week of activities
As the debate on climate solutions and environmental action intensifies around the world the focus from June 5 – 12th will be the City of Bologna, Italy, where more than 70 events and spectacles will aim to raise the bar of awareness and involvement under the #All4TheGreen
#All4TheGreen Contest: Meet the finalists
More than 660 photos, from 43 countries. Connect4Climate is delighted with such an international response, illustrating an overwhelming celebration of Mother Earth through photography.
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Meet the 20 finalists
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Madeline Dahm, USA 
Vientiane, Laos
"Ms. Pheng from Ekxang Village, Lao PDR, waters her organic garden. Ekxang is the trial site for the International Water Management Institute's project to sustainable use of groundwater as a supplement to primarily rainfed agriculture. This supplementary resource helps farmers become more resilient to unpredictable climates and increases their productivity during the dry season. We must intensify agricultural output if we wish to feed the world, but this is only feasible if it is done in a sustainable way"
Marco Pantani, Italy
Italy
Pralaya Simha Yedida, India
Powai Lake, Mumbai, India
"#All4TheGreen, every bit of water is important for change"
Danae Moyano Rodriguez, Chile
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
"#All4TheGreen: Nepal is one of those countries that fascinates you not only because of its beauty but because of the kindness of its people. Unfortunately, numerous political, social and environmental issues affect the country. Today, 2 years after the massive earthquake that struck Nepal, the country needs to find opportunities in order to grow and develop in the most environment-friendly and sustainable manner. Many things have been done by the NGOs, but there is still a lot of work to do in order to give Nepal the public services that its amazing people deserve."
Dorte Verner, Denmark
Morocco
"Women collecting grass, etc, for animal fodder. The climate is changing and rainfall becoming more variable and, therefore, more planning is needed and more food for animals need to get stored for the hot and dry summers."
Probal Rashid, Bangladesh
Satkhira, Bangladesh
"Coastal people gather to collect drinking water from a costly Reverse-Osmosis Plant set up by a local NGO at Burigoalini village in Satkhira, Bangladesh. Due to sea-level rising resulting from climate change, limited sweet water sources of the coastal area have widely been contaminated with saline water, thus compels the distant inhabitants concentrating on such limited drinking water sources."
Adil Moumane, Morocco
Zagora, Morocco
"Climate refugees. Brahim is a nomadic kid who lives with his family in Sahara desert in Morocco. After several years of drought, most of wells and rivers are dry, and nomads who still live in the old way of transhumance could not find enough water for them and their animals. Brahim and other kids must walk more than 12 hours every day with their mothers to find water for their family and for their animals."
Artur Cabral, Portugal
Neves, São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Principe
"#Santana #saotome #stp #saotomeeprincipe #african_portraits #africanamazing #igs_africa #africasfinest #ig_africa #this_is_africa"
Theodore Kinyanjui, Kenya/USA 
Kenya
"A managu seed ball"
Juan Gonzalez, Colombia
Sumapaz Wetland, Colombia
"Paramo Sumapaz, Colombia. Esta foto significa el inicio de toda la vida a travez de la producción del recurso hidrico por parte de los paramos. El progreso verde es fundamental para poder tener un equilibrio entre el desarrollo del ser humano y el medio ambiente. Yo, como biologo y fotografo, trato de mostrar a los demas la importancia de cada uno de los seres de este planeta, asi como los recursos naturales tambien hago buen uso de estos. #All4TheGreen creo q es una iniciativa que busca generar conciencia en las personas del buen cuidado de los recursos y asi poder generar un cambio en la sociedad para poder llegar a un desarrollo sostenible."
Catalina Aristizábal, Colombia
Chocó, Colombia
"Chocó, Colombia. Cada tono de verde reposa en una sola fotografía. Por mayor respeto a la naturaleza y por más momentos como este."
Jorge Andres Alomia, Colombia 
Yopal, Casanare, Colombia"#All4TheGreen: Fotografía tomada en Yopal, Casanare. Cuando despertamos ese espíritu aventurero y lo guiamos a la naturaleza podemos llegar a los mágicos lugares que el medio ambiente nos ofrece!"
Nicolás Short, Colombia 
Los Montes de María, Colombia"Después de una tarde recorriendo los montes, a 35 grados, imaginaba esta idea de refrescarme como un pez. Lugar: Los Montes de María-Colombia. ¿Por qué es importante para usted el progreso verde? Sin consciencia verde no tendremos futuro, necesitamos un cambio y viene desde nosotros hacía la sociedad, para salvar nuestro planeta que hemos sometido a varias catástrofes por abuso del medio ambiente. Para avanzar debemos fijar una meta universal de comprometernos con nuestra madre tierra. ¿Cuál es su compromiso con el medio ambiente? En mi posición como ciudadano de Bogotá, mi transporte es la bicicleta, ahorro energía en lo posible, no contaminó las calles, disfrutó las zonas verdes, dictó clases de fotografía incentivando el cuidado a nuestros parques, humedales. ¿Qué es #All4TheGreen? Es una motivación cultural que abre el conocimiento y las puertas al cuidado del medio ambiente, gestionando la participación activa del ciudadano."
Daryll Peter Griffith, Trinidad and Tobago 
Wild Fowl Trust, Point-a-Pierre, Trinidad and Tobago"I don't just see a beautiful wetland, I see a home, a protector, a doctor, and a savior - all in one. Poor wetlands protection efforts put all of this at risk and climate change exacerbates the losses already sustained. Understanding our ecosystem and establishing co-ownership of these natural resources are absolutely essential to their and our survival."
Dorte Verner, Denmark 
Ethiopia"#beautiful Omo #river observed by Karo #tribal #boys in #ethiopia. The river flow is becoming less and less reliable due to climate variability and change for the indigenous communities living along the banks of the river. #all4thegreen #climatechange"
Lina Rodriguez, Colombia 
Pailon del Diablo, Baños Tungurahua, Ecuador"Pailon del Diablo. Maravilla Ecuatoriana. El medio ambiente es la base para toda la sostenibilidad de la vida, es fundamental la conservación de los espacios verdes y el aprendizaje y respeto a la madre tierra, que nos ofrece un vinculo de lo que somos y lo que tenemos. Aprendamos a valorar."
Lucía Hernández, Colombia 
Calarcá, Colombia"Feliz viernes #bellezas. Qué ven ustedes en esta foto? Yo veo, paz, tranquilidad, ganas de ser libre y cumplir mis sueños; porque al final del camino siempre hay luz."
Enrique Patiño, Colombia 
Qubdó, Chocó, Colombia"Este popurrí de hierbas aromáticas y especias de la región del Pacífico sur de Colombia recupera el legado ancestral de los sabores tradicionales. Su sabor es poco conocido en el resto del país porque no hay cómo transportar estas plantas. Preservar la diversidad significa proteger sabores únicos."
Uriel González Rosas, Mexico 
Ignacio De La Llave, Veracruz-Llave, Mexico"Luz natural. #macro #nature #sprout #plant #sunset #sunlight #naturallight #goldenhour #bokeh #leafs #ground #trees #glare #branches #All4TheGreen #igersveracruz #greenpeace #mexigers #environment #pasionxveracruz #sky #loves_veracruz #pasionxmexico #spiderweb #MIO"
Artur Cabral, Portugal 
Neves, São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Principe#saotomeeprincipe #saotomeisland
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"Carbon pricing is the silver bullet to solve climate change"
“This is the issue of our times. Climate change is the biggest issue.” The filmmaker, Kaia Rose, stresses the importance of discussing this global matter on a Connect4Climate Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday, May 11th, with Eric Mann.
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Recap the Facebook Live Q&A
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[video:https://youtu.be/h8ael6wq84g]
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Watch "Climate Countdown: Price on Carbon”
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Jay Carter-Cole & Dani Martinez: "If we all do a little, we all gain a lot"
Vulcan Productions helps create stories to inspire people to move the planet towards a better future. In 2016, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition invited aspiring filmmakers to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action. We talked to filmmakers Jay Carter-Coles and Dani Martinez to hear what inspired them to make Your Choice, the lessons they learned and how we all can make a difference in the climate change fight.
Jay Carter-Coles & Dani Martinez
What inspired you to make this film?Dani: Since I was a child, I have always been concerned about climate change. When Antony, CEO from Real World Visuals, told us about the Film4Climate contest, we found that there was a special prize for the theme: Put a Price on Carbon, and that was what we wanted to go for. We wanted to create awareness about carbon emissions and carbon pricing as a way to address the problem caused by them. On the way, we discovered so much about what carbon pricing actually is and how implementing pricing solutions would help in reversing climate change.
Why is climate change important to you?Jay: Climate change is important to me because when I have children, I want them to live in a world where certain species do not only exist in history books. A world where they can breathe clean air and live a healthy life.
Dani: To me, I grew up in Andalusia region of Spain where having access to water could become a problem if there was not enough rain. With climate change, this problem is becoming even more serious. I want to create awareness about climate change so people begin thinking about how they can take action to help.
What is one thing that you wish people knew about your region of the world and how it is being effected by climate change?
Dani: Since I can remember, my home has been impacted by droughts. Today, this problem is getting even worse. With climate change, the risk of torrential downpour has also increased. This poses a different problem for our region’s agriculture, which is the main source of income. Not having water is obviously a problem but when the rain ones all at once, that can destroy thousands of farming acres as well.
Jay: Not many people know that North Sea Birds in the England are starving due to warming waters decreasing the population of sand eels and ridding the seas of plankton, the major food source the birds.
What is one thing you learned from embarking on this film?Jay: I learned two things: There’s a lot being done in the fight against climate change, but there’s still a lot of work left.
What is one thing people can do to make a difference?Dani: I think that the best way for people to do their bit is trying to reduce their annual carbon footprint. Daily, you find hundreds of people going to work in their cars on their own, while sharing a lift or riding a bike could seriously help reducing carbon emissions. Also, by riding a bike, they wouldn't have to be stuck in traffic for ages, so it is a win-win situation!
Jay: Start small. You don't need to invest lots of money in solar panels for your house or an electric car (but if you have the money, do it!). You can make a difference by using electric only when necessary, walking to the shops instead of driving or sharing a lift to work with a friend!
If we all do a little, we all gain a lot.
"It's our generation duty to engage people to think about climate change and act against it." "You have to start taking action now, start taking responsibility, because if we don't, let you know it may not be us who suffers, but might be your kids, or your grand kinds, or their kids. So pay now, or pay later; your choice," Jay Carter-Coles and Dani Martinez say in this video.
Photo4Climate Contest: Are you #All4theGreen?
In the lead-up to the #All4TheGreen G7 Environment Week in Bologna - a week dedicated to discussing and celebrating the environment during the G7 Summit, this u
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Special Blue Prize
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Connect4Climate, in partnership with the High-Level Panel on Water, announces the #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate Contest Special Blue Prize. We are awarding a special Blue Prize for the best photo of anything related to water in your life. It could be clean water, dirty water, lack of water; how water insecurity can lead to fragility and violence; how the lack of running water and sanitation leads to disease and stunting. How too much or too little water leads to environmental disasters and suffering. How do you value water?
“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” — Eve Arnold
Prize
A trip to New York City for the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), September 2017. Winner to be announced June 8th, World Oceans Day. [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 6th; THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 8th]
About the High-Level Panel on Water
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim convened a High-Level Panel on Water (HLPW) in January 2016. One of its objectives is to develop a set of shared principles to motivate and encourage governments, business, and civil society to consider water’s multiple values and to guide the transparent incorporation of these values into decision-making
We need to accelerate a change in the way people use and manage water! The HLPW aims to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive, and collaborative way of developing and managing water resources, and improving water and sanitation related services. The members of the panel are of Heads of State from Australia, Bangladesh, Hungary.
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Leigh Vogel, Photographer
Leigh Vogel is a photographer based in Washington, D.C. and on assignment in the US and abroad, photographing news, sports, destination travel, and portraits for agencies and clients including The Associated Press, Getty Images, UPI, Brandywine Valley, and for Connect4Climate. Serving as the President of the Women Photojournalists of Washington, Leigh's personal work consists of human rights and animal rights imagery and is the Photography Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication.
Reza Deghati, Photographer
Reza Deghati was born in Tabriz, Iran, of Azerbaijani origin. Over the last three decades, many of Reza’s photographs have been on the covers of National Geographic Magazine, with much more featured in major international publications. He is also the author of seventeen books, including War+Peace, the first in a series entitled Masters of Photography by National Geographic, and most recently, Sindhbad, Reza's adaptation of the seven journeys of this mystical character from the classic tale, A Thousand and One Nights. Childhood Promise is the story of discovery, narrated by three people, about a promise made by Reza to his son, Delazad. In 2001, he founded Aina (Persian for The Mirror), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering Afghan women and children through the media. National Geographic awarded him the title of National Geographic Fellow. In 2006 and in 2008, Reza became a senior fellow of the Ashoka Foundation, and in May 2009, received the Honorary Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the American University of Paris (AUP) for his achievements in journalism and humanitarianism. In October 2009, he received the Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary from the New York-based Lucie Foundation and in May 2010, in New York, the Infinity Award of ICP (International Center of Photography) honoured Reza for his latest report on Afghanistan; “Once upon a time, the Russian Empire”, in Photojournalism category. Reza is currently planning a new photography project with residents of the Sicilian suburb of Librino, as well as another major project in Burkina Faso. Reza's photographs have been exhibited in major cities throughout the world, and he has been the recipient of numerous humanitarian and photographic awards.
Daniel Rodrigues, Photographer
Portuguese born in Compiègne, France, in 1987, Daniel Rodrigues lives in Portugal, near Porto, since he is 10 years old. Daniel Rodrigues became a professional photographer after the passage by the Portuguese Institute of Photography (2010). His career started in the Portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manhã, and he also worked in Global Imagens agency, responsible for photographs in newspapers as Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias and O Jogo. He is an award-winning photographer who in 2013 won the first place in the World Press Photo, Daily Life category, in 2015 the third place as Photographer of the Year in POYi, in 2017 a third place as Photographer of the Year in NPPA - Best of Photojournalism and among many other awards. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Helsingin Sanomat, Die Welt, Daily Mail, CNN, BBC, Folha de São Paulo, Courrier Internacional, Expresso, Visão Magazine, among others, are where he already has published photos. Daniel is currently based in Portugal. He works as a freelance photographer all around the world and a contributor photographer for the New York Times since May 2015.
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Buscamos las mejores fotos de nuestro planeta (Spanish version)
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Previo a la Semana del Medio Ambiente #All4TheGreen G7 en Bolonia, Italia, un espacio dedicado a discutir y celebrar el medio ambiente durante la Cumbre del G7, el próximo mes de junio, Connect4Climate invita a todos los apasionados por el planeta, a compartir las fotografías más sorprendentes como una declaración y celebración de Nuestra Casa.
El concurso #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate invita a las personas a usar sus cámaras como un instrumento de cambio, como una herramienta para explorar la belleza e importancia de nuestro planeta, desde un paisaje, un nacimiento de agua, un bosque local, un océano, un lugar de herencia cultural o un ambiente de ciudad. Las fotografías deben servir como un mensaje visual para concienciar sobre los problemas ambientales y el cambio climático, fomentar la acción y también proponer soluciones potenciales para proteger esos lugares.
Los participantes deben enviar sus piezas visuales compartiéndolas en sus cuentas de Instagram usando el hashtag #All4TheGreen. Agregando una descripción sobre lo que se ve, dónde fue tomada la foto, y qué significado tiene.
¿Por qué es importante para ti para el desarrollo verde?
¿Cuál es tu compromiso con el medio ambiente?
¿Qué es #All4TheGreen?
El concurso estará abierto hasta el 31 de mayo y los finalistas serán anunciados el 5 de junio durante el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente. Además, serán exhibidos durante la Semana por el Medio Ambiente #All4TheGreen en Bolonia, Italia del 5 al 12 de junio. La foto ganadora recibirá reconocimiento en todos los eventos de Connect4Climate, y será promocionada en las plataformas de Connect4Climate. [FECHA LÍMITE EXTENDIDA HASTA EL 6 DE JUNIO. EL VENCEDOR SERÁ ANUNCIADO EN EL 8 DE JUNIO]
Cómo Participar
1. Sigue @Connect4Climate en Instagram
2. Toma una foto relacionada con el tema (All4TheGreen) y compártela en Instagram. La foto debe ser original y de tu autoría. Las fotos serán usadas bajo las políticas de Instagram.
3. En el encabezado describe qué ves, dónde fue tomada la foto y qué significa para ti.
4. Usa el hashtag #All4TheGreen
5. No olvides tener tu cuenta como “pública”.
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Benjamin Pfohl: Read this filmmaker's vision for our planet's future
Vulcan Productions helps create stories to inspire people to move the planet towards a better future. In 2016, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition invited aspiring filmmakers to express their vision for a sustainable future by creating a short film or video about climate action. We recently talked to German filmmaker Benjamin Pfohl to hear what inspired him to make Eternal Summer, the lessons he learned and how climate change is impacting his life.
Benjamin Pfohl
What inspired you to make this film?
First of all, I wanted to do my part in preventing climate change and I wanted to do so with what I can do best, through filmmaking. I wanted people to get aware of what is at stake. After watching many other climate films, which mostly address their audiences with information about the matter, I wanted to do something different. I think to change a person’s mind, it has to come from the heart. So, I confronted the audience with an emotional, dystopian vision of a world past climate change and combined it with a fictional, contrary speech of how we think about the future today.
Why is climate change important to you?
The world is full of conflicts and problems and will always be, but living on this planet is the one thing where life itself starts. It’s the one thing that will stay. So I think the most important thing is to keep this world safe and vivid. I see mankind more as a guest on this planet and therefore we need to behave like such. It is a symbiotic connection and we need to do all that is possible to protect it.
What is one thing that you wish people knew about your region of the world and how it is being affected by climate change?
I am lucky to live in a region that isn't affected by obvious climate change as much as others are. Still, even central Europe is affected by climate change and the harmful actions people and companies do to nature such as shaping rivers to canals and remodeling whole landscapes through open-pit mining. There is a change going on and I hope that we stop these actions in the near future.
What is one thing you learned from embarking on this film?
Filmmaking is a very expensive endeavor and getting this film done without the needed budget was a tough thing at first. Going deeper into production, we found so many people who cared about climate change that they were willing to spend their time or money on the project. I learned that a lot of people actually care about this world, which gave me hope that there is a change to come.
What is one thing people can do to make a difference?
First, we need global acknowledgment that climate change is happening. Then, everyone needs to find the things they can change to do their part in preventing it. As a filmmaker, I used my craft to make Eternal Summer. And as a private person, I try to do the little things: I don’t own a car, but take public transportation or bike. For longer distances, I prefer going by bus or train instead of flying whenever possible. I use electricity from alternative energies and buy regional products whenever I can. But again, every single life gives different opportunities to act.
Q&A with the filmmakers behind "Sunday Thoughts"
Vulcan Productions helps create stories to inspire people to move the planet towards a better future. In 2016, the Film4Climate Global Video Competition invited aspiring filmmakers to express their vision f
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