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 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.
The #All4TheGreen Photo4Climate Contest asks you to use your camera as an instrument for change, a tool to explore the beauty and importance of our planet, whether it is a natural landscape, a water resource, your local forest, an ocean, a cultural heritage site, or a city environment. The entries need to work as a visual message to raise awareness about environmental issues and climate change, encourage action, and also propose potential solutions to protect these places.
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!
Prize
Winning entries will be selected on World Environment Day, June 5, and will be exhibited during the #All4TheGreen Environment Week in Bologna, June 5-12. The winning photo will receive recognition at all Connect4Climate events, and be prominently featured and promoted on Connect4Climate’s social media platforms. Further opportunities will be explored and made available as appropriate. Deadline: May 31st
How to enter
1. Follow @Connect4Climate on Instagram
2. Take a photo related to the presented theme ( All4TheGreen), and share it on Instagram. The photo must be original and you must be the photographer. Your photos are governed under the Instagram terms of use
3. In the caption describe what you see, where the photo was taken, and what it means to you
4. Use the hashtag #All4TheGreen
5. Don’t forget to set your account to “public”
The competition is open to individuals around the world who are working hard towards protecting Our Common Home.
Selection of the winners
1. Judging criteria for photo winner:
i) 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);
ii) Potential impact on the objective of raising awareness about climate change issues and communicating a personal climate change story or local climate change solution;
iii) Originality;
2. Finalist photo will:
- Be exhibited during the #All4TheGreen G7 Environment Week in Bologna
- Be featured on Connect4Climate Instagram page
- Be featured in a photo album on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
- Be featured in Connect4Climate Twitter account
- Be featured on Connect4Climate website as an article
- Be featured on Connect4Climate Flickr account
- Be included in our newsletter to all our partners
You can submit as many photos you want.
Connect4Climate reserves the right to use these images with a photo credit/Instagram account name of submitter on our social media channels, website, and at events featuring Connect4Climate.
Special Blue Prize
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.
