Be The Movement Videos

 

The Workgroup highlights are presented by Tan Copsey, Prof. Krzysztof Błażejczyk, Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, and Antonio Navarra before Rachel Kyte's keynote speech at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

The Workgroups focused on:

1. Messaging for New Audiences #ccMessage
How do you message for new and broad audiences?

2. Empowering Educators #ccEducators
What is needed to empower climate educators?

3. Innovating Campaign Strategies #ccCampaign
What is missing in climate campaigns?

4. Considering Costs #ccCost
How do you link economic incentives to climate action?

5. Leading for Solutions #ccLeading
How do you catalyse the adoption of climate change solutions?

 

"This is about building a movement, you are the movement.

As you said at the very beginning every one person can make a difference. If you look at the example of the women's movement, the gay rights movement, of the movements that have transformed within a generation not just what is happening in the world, but the way in which young people think about what their lives might be then every single person has made a difference.... If you want to make change you're going to have to take the brave fork in the road. That's your challenge."

 

Corrado Clini, the Director General at the Italian Ministry of the Environment, introduces the afternoon programme of the Be The Movement Workshop and talks about Connect4Climate.He also introduces Irene Pecetti from Cruciani, who presents the Connect4Climate bracelet as a symbol for people to wear who care about climate change.

 

Eliza Anyangwe from the Global Development Professionals Network of The Guardian interviews Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop, November 20, 2013. 

Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz is Head of the Laboratory of Climate and Water Resources in the Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań (RCAFE PAS), and a Senior Scientist in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany.

He was lead author of Chapter 13 (Europe) in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s WG2 TAR (Climate Change - Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities) and of Chapter 3 (Freshwater resources and their management) in IPCC's WG2 AR4. He also was lead author of IPCC's Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water and of Chapter 4 of the IPCC Special Report on Extremes. He was part of the inner circle of the IPCC, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a member of the Advisory Board on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Program. Prof. Kundzewicz holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of the scientific bi-monthly "Hydrological Sciences Journal" (Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK) and is a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals. He has authored 387 publications

 

Bruce Campell gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Climate Smart Villages at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Bruce is the Director of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Program at CGIAR.

"What is a climate smart village? It's about new technologies, it's about climate information services, it's about local knowledge and institutions and it is about village development plans."

 

Marion Davis gave a Pecha Kucha talk on In it Together: Learning to Build Capacity Across Cultures at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

She handles communications for Stockholm Environmental Institute's Reducing Climate Risk theme -- including editing, writing support, online materials, social media, outreach, media relations, and internal communications. She also manages communications for SEI-US and works closely with SEI headquarters on global communications.

"Adaptation is a learning process, climate change, everything we are doing, we are learning so it will get better."

 

Jean-Pierre Roux gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the MAPS Programme at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Jean-Pierre provides knowledge management support for MAPS and CDKN. His research interests lie in South African energy policy and understanding how networks of expertise emerge to solve techno-social issues like climate change through technically rigorous and politically legitimate processes.

"We emphasize the development first approach, with climate co-benefits."

 

Sepo Hachigonta gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Policy Engagements for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

He is responsible for coordinating FANRPAN's climate change projects including adaptation and mitigation. Since 2008, Hachigonta has been part of a team that runs training workshops on the use of climate information for policy development. The training is facilitated by University of Cape Town (UCT) in collaboration with United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC).

"We believe knowledge lies with the people."

 

Arno Scharl gave a Pecha Kucha talk on Media Watch on Climate Change at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

He heads the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. Prior to this appointment, he held professorships at Graz University of Technology and the University of Western Australia, and the position of a Key Researcher at the Austrian Competence Center for Knowledge Management.

"The Media Watch on climate change aggregates and processes climate information [...] We track the evolution of trends and the goal is also to shared meaning and understand how others perceive climate change."

 

Part 1: Jamie Henn presents 350.org on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.

Jamie Henn is the co-founder and Communications Director for 350.org, which grew from a group of six college friends and the writer Bill McKibben into one of the largest climate change campaigns in the world. The campaign now has over 40 staff members working on six continents and nearly a million supporters. Henn plays a key role in creating 350.org's strategy, coordinating its political advocacy, and helping the organization grow.

"We need to be a bit more like the world that we want to create. Instead of one big coal plant we want distributed solar panels. Instead of one campaign we many campaigns that work together and are interconnected and create power together."

 

Part 2: David Cadman presents ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.

David Cadman is a former Vancouver city councillor, social and environmental activist, and a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors. In his native Canada, he worked for the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver Regional District as communications director. He has served as president of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation. Since 2007, Cadman is President of the international organization 'ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability' an international organization of nearly 1,000 local governments that have made a commitment to sustainability. He heads ICLEI's executive committee, representing the organization to other international bodies.

"Time is not on our side. It's time to get angry, it's time to say we want a future."

 

Part 3: Wael Hmaidan presents the Climate Action Network on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.

Wael Hmaidan is director of CAN -- International. A social entrepreneur, in 2007 he founded IndyACT, a Lebanon-based organization that has spread throughout the Arab World and Europe. He has more than 16 years of experience in NGO management and environmental campaigning in a number of NGOs. He began as the Greenpeace campaigner for the Arab World, helping establish the energy and marine reserves campaign in the region. Through IndyACT's climate campaign, Hmaidan has been able to influence Arab climate policy and raise the profile of climate change among the region's public and governments. He served as one of Lebanon's lead negotiators in the UNFCCC.

"Key for success is not IQ, not anything related to discipline, but it is grit, which is having the courage to stand up and continue with full motivation and dedication to achieve something."

 

Part 4: Kelly Rigg presents the Global Call for Climate Action (tck tck tck) on the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.

Kelly Rigg is Executive Director of the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA), a world-wide alliance of more than 300 organizations collaborating under the banner of the "TckTckTck Campaign." She has been leading international campaigns on climate, energy, oceans, and Antarctica for nearly 30 years. She was a senior campaign director for Greenpeace International and a founder of the Varda Group consultancy providing campaign and strategic advice to a wide range of NGOs.

"We need a full spectrum of people involved, mobilize people who are passionate already and get them to take stronger action."

 

Part 5: Question and Answer session lead by Eliza Anyangwe with participants of the Climate Change Movement Maker's panel discussion at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Panel discussants were Jamie Henn (350.org), David Cadman (ICLEI), Wael Hmaidan (CAN) and Kelly Rigg (GCCA). Eliza Anyangwe of the Guardian moderated the panel.

 

Nick Nuttall holds a motivational talk on climate action, highlighting the way forward through climate finance and parallel universes, at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Nick Nuttall is Communications Director and Spokesperson for the UN Environment Programme headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also the spokesperson, principal speechwriter and creative writer for UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner.

"We need to change rules of the game. The rules are not working in favor of climate change."

 

Yvo De Boer stressed the need to look at multiple environmental threats, including water, energy and climate change, at the Be The Movement Workshop in parallel to COP19.

Yvo de Boer (born June 12, 1954) was appointed by then Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 4 September 2006 to 1 July 2010. He resigned in 2010 to join KPMG as its Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability and global ambassador. In 2011, he was appointed to chair the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change.

Alongside his work for KPMG, de Boer is currently a Professional Fellow at the University of Maastricht and is a certified mediator. He is a Member of the Board of the Centre for Clean Air Policy, a Council Member of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, a member of the Green Growth Leaders, a member of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative steering group, a Board Member of the Carbon Markets International Association, a member of the International Advisory Group of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, as well as a Board member of the Carbon Markets International Association. Mr. de Boer received a knighthood from her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in 2009 and the Dutch Climate Award in 2010.

"There is a massive fear to be a first mover, to begin, to drive that change."

 

Michael Williams gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the latest IPCC report at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Michael is the Chief of Communications and Public Affairs at the World Meteorological Organization.

"Human influence on the climate is clear."

 

Camilla Torpe gave a Pecha Kucha talk on the LEGO Build The Change initiative at the Conenct4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Camilla Torpe is event manager for LEGO, the world-renowned children's toy company. The Sweden-born Torpe began working for the LEGO Group in 1976 when she was a waitress in LEGOLAND Park. After raising three children with her Danish husband, she returned to the LEGO Group and has worked there for the past 23 years. Two of her recent events included "LEGO Build the Change" and the "LEGO Inside Tour."

"Our vision from LEGO is to develop the builders of tomorrow and empowering children to build what they want to see in their future."

 

Michelle Kovacevic held a Pecha Kucha talk on science communication at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Michelle is a science communicator with an honours degree in neuroscience from the University Of Melbourne, Australia. She has experience across many science communication platforms including magazines, radio, presenting (to students, policymakers and practitioners), corporate PR, academia and capacity building. Michelle is currently the editor of the Forests News blog and coordinates CIFOR's multilingual social media channels.

"Communications can be building awareness, motivation, self-belief, knowledge and skills."

 

Geoff Barnard held a Pecha Kucha talk on the climate knowledge platform at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Geoff Barnard helped develop CDKN's approach to communications as leader of its knowledge management team. He now plays an advisory role, focusing particularly on learning, and CDKN's work with think tanks and other knowledge brokers. He is closely involved in the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, and chairs the Steering Group that coordinates its events and activities.

"We are wasting time when time is so precious right now."

 

Moritz Weigel held a Pecha Kucha talk on the United Nations Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and Public Awareness activities at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Moritz Weigel is an Associate Programme at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"Education and awareness are absolutely key for bringing about the fundamental changes in the way we think and act that we need for building a sustainable future for all of us."

 

Stefan Maard gives a strong presentation on the role of business in tackling climate change and driving for climate action, with a introduction video by Peter Bakker.

Peter Bakker is the President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Peter is a respected leader in corporate responsibility. He is the recipient of Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009 and the SAM Sustainability Leadership Award in 2010, and is a UN WFP Ambassador Against Hunger.

Stefan Maard is Senior Advisor for Business Development at Novozymes. Stefan identifies and develops opportunities for Novozymes to engage in frontier markets. As an intrapreneur, Stefan develops new business concepts and innovative business models for Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets, incubating commercial partnerships that deploy biotech solutions to help alleviate poverty and protect the environment.

 

Students from I LO Karol Marcinkowski, Poznan, XIV LO Stanisław Staszic, Warsaw and V LO August Witkowski, Cracow, read a pledge at the Connect4Climate Be The Movement Workshop in Warsaw, 20 November 2013.

Roch Jasielski, Piotr Brachowicz and Karolina Gumiezna jointly declared "We are fully aware that climate change is a dangerous threat not just to our generation, but to our sons and daughters, and all future generations."

We will 'Be The Movement'! Right here, right now, together!

Find out more about the workshop and download the Knowledge4Climate Report.