As part of an exciting global youth video competition, young people from around the world have been asked to say how they are shaping a more sustainable future in short and exciting videos.
The competition videos are now ready to view, and we’d like to ask YOU to help us select the winners!
The stories range from a project to generate solar energy in Lebanon, to creating rain water systems in Venezuela and climate “boot camps” in Uganda.
A total of over 180 entrants from 77 countries submitted short video reports on their personal climate actions and activities to raise public awareness, of which 40 have been short-listed. The videos of the 40 finalists from around the world can be viewed here.
You have from now until 23 September 2016 to make your decision!
Please note: The competition has two categories, Climate Action and Public Awareness. Each view counts as a vote.
About the competition
The competition was launched by Action for Climate Empowerment ACE, the UNFCCC secretariat, in partnership with Television for the Environment (tve) and supported by the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme, which is run by the UN Development Programme. Young people between the ages of 18 and 30 have been called upon to participate.
The two winners of the Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change will travel to the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech at the end of the year and work with the communications team of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in covering highlights of the meeting.
Click here to keep up with all the activities of Action for Climate Empowerment ACE.
About the UNFCCC
With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.
About tve
tve works with filmmakers and partners worldwide to make and distribute films that put the environment and sustainability on the global agenda. From aspiring filmmakers documenting the challenge of e-waste disposal to major corporations showcasing innovation, tve helps to give a voice and a platform to a new generation of filmmakers who want to see a greener and fairer world. tve films are broadcast to hundreds of millions of viewers, screened to audiences ranging from policymakers to rickshaw drivers, and viewed online worldwide. Our films inspire change.
About GEF – Small Grants Programme
Established in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the GEF Small Grants Programme embodies the very essence of sustainable development by "thinking globally acting locally". By providing financial and technical support to projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people's well-being and livelihoods, SGP demonstrates that community action can maintain the fine balance between human needs and environmental imperatives.
