Subject: [invites]
Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water Film Festival
From: "Anugraha
John" <ajohn316@gmail.com>
Date: June 7, 2008
*Global
Citizens' Climate Change and Water Film Festival*
Of the many social, economic and environmental impacts and
vulnerabilities to climate change,
the projected effects on the qualitative and quantitative status of world water
resources is a critical area for people's lives and the economy.
Even if
emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilized today, increases in temperature and the
associated impacts, including those on water availability and
flooding will continue for decades
Water resource
issues interact with a wide range of socio-economic and environmental sectors
including health, agriculture, biodiversity, public safety, industry and
navigation. Indeed, there are few activities that do not in some way
depend on or interact with water resources.
The main climate
change consequences related to water resources are increases in
temperature, shifts in precipitation patterns and snow cover, an increase in the
frequency of flooding and droughts, and the possible large impact of
future sea-level rises. There is also a growing body of knowledge on the
nature and scale of future impacts. This has led to an increasing urgency to
adapt water resource management to meet the future challenges.
*About
this Film Festival *
Today one-third
of the world population comprises of youth and every nations hope is in youth. We
believe as organizers of this Film festival that Youth have tremendous
potential and can make a difference on alarming issues such as these. It is also
true that youth cannot do it on their own thus youth will make
Intergenerational partnership to bring this Change. But someone has to take a lead
and this time it would be young people.
This festival
will be hosted with the help of local universities, colleges and high school or
Non-governmental Organizations addressing issues locally and globally. Youth
from the institution/s which hosts this festival will be the joint
coordinator/s for such a festival.
This film
festival could be either a half a day to four days festival depending on the
budget raised or resources mobilized by local institutions.We as organizers are
not going to help financially but find different resources within the
institution to mobilize such an event. Today quite few institutions have
their own LCD projector, sound system and a classroom. That's most of what
we need, films and Speakers/Experts for a discussion after the film
festival we will organize.
If you think
this is not going to work, we would like to tell you it did work earlier with the
World Youth Water Alliance Film festival (a program of the Global Citizens
for Sustainable Development) successfully hosted in India, China,
Philippines, Japan and USA. Please see the link: *
http://wateralliance.org/Events.html*
The first film
festival will be launched in Tokyo, Japan at the China-India-Japan
Forum in July
2008. This film festival will then travel to countries such as
India, China, Korea, USA, Greece, New Zealand and others up to December 2009.
If you are
interested to host Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water film festival at your
institution or if you want to submit films for this Festival please
contact us at
*filmfestival@globalcitizens.org.in*and regionally
Asia - Anugraha
John:
*ajohn316@globalcitizens.org.in*
USA - Nina
Gregg: *ngregg@att.net* and *charter.US@alliance21.org*
Europe – Yolanda
Ziaka: *charte.europe@otenet.gr* <charte.europe@otenet.gr>
Pacific – Betsan
Martin: *betsan@response.org.nz* <betsan@response.org.nz>
Thank you
Yours sincerely
*Anugraha John,
Anabel Tonkovi, Nina Gregg, Pat Keeton, Ruma Sen, Zhao
Baisheng,
Yolanda Zaika and Betsan Martin.*
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(Mr.) ANUGRAHA
JOHN
P.O Box 3210.
R.T Nagar Post. Bangalore - 560 032.INDIA.
Email: ajohn316@globalcitizens.org.in
Mobile:+91-94481
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