UN video competition

Applications are now open for the Climate Change Video Competition.Anyone over 18 and under 30 can take part in the competition.The competition is held for the eighth time by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with the participation of the United Nations Development Program from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).Contestants must shoot short (no longer than three minutes) videos in any genre, demonstrating how the inhabitants of the planet Earth would live without environmental pollution and climate change associated with this.

The competition is divided into two categories - the ecology of the city and the impact of climate change on the ocean.

Urban ecology

Videos in this category must answer one of the following questions:

1. How to organize urban space so that it does not cause negative climate change?(green spaces, community gardening, waste recycling, energy conversion, flood protection).

2. How to raise public awareness of the city's environmental problems, as well as promote the fight against climate change at the political level?

Impacts of climate change on the ocean

Videos in this category should suggest ways to:

1. Restoration of swamps and mangroves;

2. Construction of dams and other protective structures;

3. Raise public awareness on how to protect the ocean from climate change and how to reduce excess carbon dioxide emissions;

4. Development of scientific research in the field of ocean protection.

Prizes

Winners of the competition will have the opportunity to attend the COP23 conference in Bonn on climate change, as a reporter fromUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

How to apply?

To take part in the competition, you must upload a video (no longer than 3 minutes) on the site

Acceptance of applications ends on August 18, 2017.

More information about the competition (in English) you can find on the official website at link.