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Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change 2017

 

            

 

We are delighted to invite you to this year’s launch of the Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change 2017, which will take place, 10 May 2017, at 12:30 to 13:15 in the Press Conference room Nairobi 4 of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

 

The objective of the Global Youth Video Competition is to highlight climate action being taken by youth through videos; providing them with a platform to identify their successes and inspire other youth and policy-makers.

 

The 2017 competition is co-organized by the UNFCCC secretariat and the UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme. The competition will be implemented through the Television for Environment (tve) platform.

 

This year the competition will have two categories:

-          Climate friendly and resilient cities

-          Oceans and climate change.

 

The winners will receive the following prize:

-          Round-trip travel to COP 23 in Bonn, Germany, November 2017;

-          Assignment as a youth reporter during COP 23, responsible for assisting the UNFCCC Newsroom team with videos, articles and social media posts. Tve will also publish blogs each day on the tvebiomovies site biomovies.tve.org and include them in the overall marketing of the tvebiomovies films.

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In case you are not able to join us in Bonn, you can also watch us on our Webcast.

For more information about the Global Youth Video Competition 2017 please visit our webpage: Lights, Camera, Action - Win Your Way to COP 23 in Bonn.

 

 

 

World Environment Day

 

Friends at UN Environment have been in touch to ask if youth groups around the world would come together and be a major partner for the World Environment Day celebrations, which are due to take place on 5 June 2017.

This year the them is “Connecting People to Nature” and the slogan is "I’m with Nature" and they are looking to organise thousands of events around the world. This year they are prioritising engaging with young people with the ambition of getting as many people out into nature as possible. In many countries, national parks will be free to enter and many major public landmarks will be lit up green in support of the day.

 

They have reached out to collaborate, so that together, with the ambition of making this the biggest World Environment Day ever. All of the materials below are available in English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese so they are ready to be used in many countries across the world (with apologies to those who's languages aren't represented ;-(

 

There are three ways you can get involved:

1) Get out in nature: UN Environment have designed a range of activities for how groups can get involved in World Environment Day, these include a series of lesson plans that might also work in a scouts and guides context or perhaps you could prioritise a badge that is related to the theme? Click on the toolkit links and see what would work for you and then register your event to join the global celebrations. Click below:

http://www.worldenvironmentday.global/en/toolkits#event-kits

 

2) Help Create the World's Biggest Nature Album: Their big digital idea for World Environment Day is to create the world's biggest nature album with people sharing a photo or video of the place that matters to them. This fun idea could be great for scout groups to get out into nature and take a photo of a view or landscape that inspires them and then share on the #WorldEnvironmentDay and #WithNature hashtags on social media.

http://worldenvironmentday.global/en/how-celebrate/picture-all-places-matter

 

3) Explore your world: This year they are organising a 12 day challenge to get people to record the wildlife they are seeing on their doorstep. With their partners at iNaturalist, it is so easy to get involved, and all the images you take will be shared with scientists to help them see how the world is changing.  This could be a great way to get young people out exploring species and learning more about them and recording what they see on a free App. Click belowto find out how to get involve:

http://worldenvironmentday.global/en/how-celebrate/explore-nature-you-love-worldenvironmentday

 

 

The YUNGA Team

 

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