Newsletter February 2010

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The United Nations Environment Programme has declared 2010 the Year of Biodviersity in an effort to raise awareness of the destruction to the natural world caused by human activity. They launched the campaign with a speech by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in which he said “A wide variety of environmental goods and services that we take for granted are under threat, with profound and damaging consequences for ecosystems, economies and livelihoods.

We will be supporting their campaign in 2010. Read more on the blog

A new campaign has just launched in the UK to build support for a tax on financial transactions called a Tobin tax that could raise billions to help finance climate change adaptation and mitigation in the global south. Taking inspiration from the legend of Robin Hood, the medieval bandit who conducted his own brand of wealth redistribution, the campaign calls for a Robin Hood Tax.

“Nearly one billion people in the world live on less than 1 dollar a day. Women account for 70 per cent of this figure. This situation should have sounded the alarm many years ago.” Oxfam Spain have launched the Actua Film Festival for 2010 and the theme this year is poverty. They are calling for entries films of no more than 20 minutes and can be either fiction or documentary. Judged by a team of respected industry professionals, the winners will be projected simultaneously in 30 cities across Spain.

The 1 Minute to Save the World 2009 entries 85 Months and Counting by Finn Harries and Invest by Temujin Doran were selected to screen in the Future Films Choice at the BFI’s 3rd Future Films Festival. They were part of the screening showcasing young filmmaking talent held at the BFI Southbank last Friday. Well done to Finn Harries and Temujin Doran.
See the films here

Public Money Funding Climate Change
Read the first in our series of guest blogs by People & Planet campaigner Adam Ramsay.“Money makes the world go round. To take fossil fuels out of the ground, they need money. To build a new, low carbon society, we’ll need money. And if you are looking at where the money driving climate change is coming from, one name keeps popping up.

Newsletter February 2010

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