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United Nations Youth Climate Change Challenge Launched
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Apr 12th, 2008 - 18:21:25 |
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I am pleased to share with everyone the launched contest on QuantumShift.tv.
To view the contest and upload your video submission please visit
http://www.quantumshift.tv/contests/11/16/
The United Nations Youth Climate Change Challenge is an interactive
competition that aims to inspire and educate young people on the key
messages of the 2007 Human Development Report - the United Nations' most
comprehensive analysis of current scientific, economic and political
thinking about the threat of catastrophic climate change and how to avoid
it.
The contest invites young people aged 15-25 to make 30-150 second videos
that relate these key messages to their own lived experience of climate
change, their views about it, and/or their concerns about how the older
generation have been, or should be, reacting to the challenge of combating
it.
*Videos to Engage and Inspire the World:*
The United Nations is made up of 193 member states - and young people aged
15-25 in each of them are welcome to enter this contest. Even if you do not
own a Video Camera, or a computer, you can take part in the contest.
*What to do if you don't have a camera?*
If you have a brilliant idea for a dramatic video on Climate Change – or a
documentary subject on your doorstep that is just begging to be filmed,
don't let the chance to film it slip you by. FIRST – try to borrow a camera
from a neighbour, or even your local UN office, or the office of a local aid
agency: tell them what you want to do, and see if you cannot get them to
help you. Then, when you have filmed your material, send us the tape, along
with a script, or explanation of how you want it edited, and we will edit
the material for you – if we feel that it is of sufficient quality to make a
worthwhile contribution to this project.
If you cannot find any one to lend you a camera, then we welcome submissions
of Documentary and/or Drama scripts. You should submit each script
separately as an e-mail of no more than 500-words in length. If possible
attach some digital photographs – showing where and/or what it is you want
to film. If it is in a language other than English, please provide a summary
translation. Send your script to media (at) peacechild.org to reach us by Friday
May 30th. Each submission will get an acknowledgement and, by June 4th, an
indication of whether or not you are one of the five lucky winners. You will
then be sent a video camera and some tapes. You are required to film your
video and send the tapes to in the pre-paid envelope provided by June 30th.
You may keep the camera for future use.
*Prize*:
An all expense trip paid to attend the World Youth Congress 2008 in Quebec
City, Quebec.
The 4th World Youth Congress will bring 600 of the world's most dynamic
young activists in the field of sustainable development to Quebec from 120
different countries.
*Key Messages*
What are the Key Messages this HDR delivers about Climate Change? The 7 x
key messages of this report distil the world's best scientific, economic and
political thinking about the impact of the climate change crisis on people
and what we need to do about it. The seven Key Messages are:
1. Climate Change - its effect on People: We've had the UN scientists'
report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); we've had
the report on its economic impact in the Stern Report. This Human
Development Report is about people and how we are all affected by climate
change.
2. The poor suffer most from Climate Change - and will suffer more:
Given that 2.6 billion live in poverty, unable to meet their basic needs,
these people are likely to be the first to face the impacts of dangerous
climate change and suffer human development reversals. The Report tells that
the poor are already suffering, and will suffer more, as a result of climate
change. But we will all suffer later. In fact, some rich countries are
already seeing the impacts of climate change and are dealing with its
consequences. If we do not avoid dangerous climate change, the consequences
will be more severe and widespread.
3. Urgency: The Report argues that climate change needs urgent action:
today we are living with what we did yesterday; tomorrow we will all live
with what we do today. We need to take action now.
4. Climate change - a serious threat to our ability to meet the MDGs:
- we depend on our world's eco- systems for water, for agriculture, for our
industries, our livelihoods and many other aspects of our life - climate
change poses a serious threat to our ability to meet the eight Millennium
Development Goals especially as it is the poor who are already seeing its
impacts.
5. Climate change - an immense threat to Human Rights: The UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks of the inalienable rights of the
human family to "freedom, justice and peace". Climate change is an immense
threat to those rights. Yet it is also a reminder that we are a single,
interdependent human family sharing a common home on Planet Earth. The UN
has a key role in the discussion, and the action, on climate change to
protect human rights.
6. Both Mitigation and Adaptation needed: Mitigation means taking
action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid more climate change. It
is about transforming the way that countries produce and use energy and
changing industry and activities to reduce or eliminate emissions.
Adaptation is the way people respond to new or changed conditions in
climate, such as more droughts, flooding or severe storms. It means adapting
our current and future lifestyles, towns, cities, infrastructure -
everything! - to take account of climate change. The report states that both
actions need to be taken to fight climate change and the threats it poses to
humanity.
7. UN is well-placed to give Leadership: Climate change is exactly the
kind of global challenge that the UN was set up to address. The
Secretary-General has made it his personal priority to work with Member
States to ensure that the United Nations takes effective leadership in the
fight against climate change.
To read the full report, go to the UNDP website: http://hdr.undp.org - where
you can download the full Report.
Let the submissions begin
Adam MacIsaac
Media Coordinator
UNDP Youth Climate Change Project
www.peacechild.org/climate
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