In November 2022, Egypt will host the 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties – also known as COP27.
The COP27 summit will bring together international government negotiators, decision-makers and policymakers to discuss how they should accelerate action towards stopping climate change. From small island states to countries with rapidly growing urban areas, representatives from 197 countries are expected to join the summit.
We are inviting young people to send in video clips of themselves in conversation with someone from a different generation talking about how climate change is affecting them. You could highlight how your area or region has changed over time due to climate change, and what your hopes and fears are for the future. This conversation could be with a grandparent or older person in your community. You could also discuss what has been done to protect people and place against the effects of climate change, and whether these were successful or not. We have produced a list of conversation points which you’ll find further down the page.
These videos will be compiled into ActNowFilm2 and showcased at COP27. Deadline for submission of videos: 2nd September 2022
Check out our youtube channel and trailer here.
This film follows on from the success of ActNowFilm, premiered last year at COP26 in Glasgow, which brought together youth voices from around the world, and gave young people living across the planet the opportunity to tell decision-makers, in their own words, why stopping climate change is important to future generations. The film outlined how climate change is affecting young people, what they are campaigning for and what messages they wanted to tell climate negotiators at COP26.
A COP26 UK Universities Network project (now the UK Universities Climate Network), led by Cambridge Zero and the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, the film was put together in conjunction with a student team and was showcased at COP itself, as well as other profile-raising events such as the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate Youth Summit; COP15 on Biodiversity; and Climate Week NYC.
How to take part:
If you’d like to take part in ActNowFilm2, please submit your video of up to 5 minutes and accompanying details on this Google form.
Note: If you have difficulties accessing Google forms, please email your submission to info@zero.cam.ac.uk.
- If anyone appearing in the film is under 18, your submission must be accompanied by a consent form signed by their parent or guardian. This is available here for those submitting by email and is also available on the form.
- All received submissions must also agree with our terms of reference.
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ActNowFilm2 Submissions Conversation Guide:
We are looking for conversations, between younger and older generations, whereby the younger person is ‘interviewing’ the older person. Film clips should aim to answer some or all of the following questions and take this general format.
Introductions:
- Please introduce yourselves and say how you know each other. For example, my name is Bob and this is my grandmother.
- Please say the country you live in, and also the region or town if you would like to share that.
Growing up or childhood memories:
- Where did you grow up, or where did you live when you were my age?
- What did your village look like, smell like, what strong memories do you have?
- What did you like to do when you were a child/ my age?
- What was your favourite place to go?
- Have you always lived in the same place?
- What was your daily routine like when you were growing up?
- How has your environment changed in that time?
- How do you think my childhood experience is different to yours?
What climate change means to you:
- What’s the worst weather, or climate experience, you remember as a child? (Both participants
- How has climate change affected your home/ village or city/ ways of life?
- How do you think climate change might affect your home/ village or city / ways of life?
- How do you think climate change might affect your life?
- How do you think climate change might affect my life?
Future concerns and elder advice:
- What are your concerns for your home/ village or city/ ways of life?
- Do you worry about future generations and the world we will be living in?
- What do you hope for the future generations?
- What advice would you give young people about our futures and what would you like to say to policymakers and global decision makers?
Older person to ask the younger person:
- How do you feel about the world you are inheriting?
- What are your concerns about your future?
- What are your hopes for the future?
- What would you like to say to policymakers and decision-makers about your future?
If you are part of a climate organisation and would like us to feature your logo on the film, please send us the name of the organisation, the logo (if you have access to it) and contact details for the owner of the logo or trademark. We can only feature logos for which we have official usage permission.
Top tips and technical specifications for your film clip:
- Please shoot your film “landscape”.
- Please include all speakers on camera. You may wish to incorporate some conversation looking at each other and other conversation looking at the camera.
- Please feel free to include, where relevant and where the footage will be enhanced, a mix of wide and close-up shots.
- Please aim to have no/minimal background noise.
- We’d love to see footage of you/ your group speaking, as well as footage that demonstrates what you’re working on, or talking about – e.g. a polluted or flooded river. However we cannot accept footage that you yourself have not shot, so please don’t incorporate footage downloaded from the internet.
- Please don’t put any graphics or subtitles onto your submission.
- Please don’t include any music or soundtrack other than your voices – this makes it easier for us to combine multiple clips into one film.
- If you can, please speak in English. If this is not possible, let us know what language you are speaking and we will create subtitles for non-English language sections.
- If you or your organisation are in danger of persecution, please consider sending an ‘anonymised’ clip if you can do so safely – e.g., footage of your country / area, without you in it, without your name etc. It would be helpful to know what country you are sending it from, if possible.
