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Turning the Tide at the UN
Thursday, 5 March 2009 | posted by Matt_BC
Climate change
Twelve young activists and climate witnesses between the age of 16 and 25 were selected by and international jury to showcase their climate change stories and photos during the 10th session of the Human Rights Council, showing how climate change affects their lives, livelihoods and human rights. The exhibition was opened on 3 March by Caroline Morrissey, Director of the British Council Switzerland, Dr Ahmed Shaheed, Foreign Minister of the Maldives and Dr Marco Ferrari, member of the board of directors of the Global Risk Forum Davos, all of whom stressed the importance of giving young people a voice to address the challenges they are facing today. The audience was deeply touched by the enthusiasm, dedication and initiative the twelve winners put into their submissions. The message that the exhibition sends out is one of hope, that young people around the world are actively working to improve the state of the world and ultimately to help turn the tide.
Turning the Tide is a project organised by the British Council, the Maldives Mission in Geneva and the Global Risk Forum GRF in Davos. Young people from around the world were asked to tell their stories of how they live in and adapt to the changing climate. We received 45 entries from over 30 countries, all of which are on display in the online exhibition at www.turningthetide.ch.
Four participants are alumni of the British Council’s International Climate Champions Programme and one is a Global Changemaker.
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7 March 2009
Congratulations to the winners and organizers of Turning the Tide! Hope we can look for more creative ways like this where we can make climate change more relevant to young people. If we can effectively make more people realize their roles, it will create a whole lot of difference.
9 March 2009
COOOOOOOOOOOL :D What are their names? or is it desplayed on the website? if so i just opned it so never mind my Q
11 March 2009
I am really amazed by the work of this young people, I love photographie myself, but my inspiration got dried when it came to this exhibition. Congrats to both participants and organizers.
And a big greeting from Serbia to BC stuff.
All best.
24 March 2009
It was an amazing experience working on this project.BTW Seraj you can find our names in the website.I hope we get more such projects in the future!
24 March 2009
Ya ya i saw it :D Good work guys I LOVED THE PICTURES :D