About the Event

On November 25, the Stop Funding Overfishing coalition hosted a special screening of Ocean with David Attenborough for WTO ambassadors and delegates. The documentary is a powerful and immersive exploration of the urgent need to protect our oceans. The event itself shed light on the vital role WTO members can play in safeguarding marine ecosystems and reinforced our shared responsibility to ensure a sustainable future for all. 

Program

• 17:30–18:30 – Welcome reception
• 18:30–19:00 – Short panel discussion
• 19:00–20:25 – Film screening

Speakers

Moderator: Alice Tipping, Director of Trade and Sustainable Development, IISD

• Toby Strong, Cinematographer
• Minna Epps, Global Ocean Policy Director, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Efraim Gomez, Director, Global Policy Impact, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Pauline Gerrard, interim executive director of IISD Experimental Lakes Area, will take to the stage on June 6, 2024 as part of TedX Winnipeg.

She will be explaining why we need to pollute the environment more, in order to pollute it less.

To support her intentionally provocative statement, she will showcase the world's freshwater laboratory as a shining example of that 'whole-ecosystem experimentation' model, explore links to traditional knowledge, and set out a path forward.

If you're in Winnipeg, you can buy tickets to attend online. If not, you can livestream the event on the day.

Click here to do both.

Join Aquatic Life and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for a launch of the Winnipeg River Adaptive Monitoring Project.
 
You will discover how we can continuously monitor the health of the Winnipeg River from the comfort of our desks, thanks to remote sensors—and how we can expand this project, with YOUR help.

WHERE: 1 Vanier Avenue, Pinawa
WHEN: Friday, June 24 (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.)
 
From 10:30 a.m., join us for mingling and light refreshments.
At 11:00 a.m., hear from the experts at Aquatic Life and IISD, as well as invited dignitaries.
At 11:30 a.m., get your hands dirty as we show you the technology and data firsthand.
Then join us at noon for a light lunch.

Please RSVP to Donna Laroque at [email protected].

Parking is available close by on Willis Drive and in front of the Pinawa Heritage Sundial.

Climate change is a catastrophic reality in Benin, directly affecting people’s lives with major floods, long periods of drought, sea-level rise, and water contamination.

The Government of Benin is in the final stages of developing its NAP to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This plan identifies the country’s vulnerabilities to climate change and presents a plan of action to build the resilience of its policies and practices.

In other words, the Government of Benin is one step closer to protecting its ecosystems, communities, and economies from the impacts of climate change.

Premiering virtually, On the Road to Resilience in Benin takes a tour of the local consequences of climate change and presents the country’s NAP process. This documentary was made by the Government of Benin’s NAP team and features government representatives from different departments and ministries, including Gender and Climate Change, to explain the diverse benefits of the NAP process. Special appearances in this film are also made by local farmers and entrepreneurs, sharing their experience with climate change and plans to adapt.

After watching the documentary, we will begin a Q&A session with our panellists, who each appear in the movie. Join us at this virtual premiere to learn more about Benin’s NAP process directly from those involved.

The exhibition Next Season: Art and Science in the Face of the Climate Future kicked off on April 22 at the Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC, its Spanish acronym) in San Jose. Open to the public through June 19, the exhibition showcases works depicting climate change adaptation and mitigation developed by eight artists during residencies in some of the most important scientific centres in the Central America country.

Eight Costa Rican artists, selected in January through a public call, are exhibiting their climate crisis work developed during residencies in the scientific centres. From February to April, Elia Arce, Carlos Fernández, Esteban Hidalgo, Sara Mata, Rosella Matamoros, Óscar Ruiz Schmidt, Jonathan Torres, and Christian Wedel developed projects that combined their artistic research interests with climate crisis information and data.

Through their artwork, the artists pose urgent questions about the impact of climate change on various aspects of our lives, such as our interactions with ecosystems, in addition to proposing new dialogues between arts and science. With their cross-disciplinary approaches, the eight pieces exhibit different strategies to address the climate crisis, from direct confrontation to a thought-provoking poetic approach.

Watch the video on the Next Season project:

Undertaken by the Directorate of Climate Change of the Costa Rican Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), in partnership with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Next Season aims to explore the intersections of contemporary art research and the sciences in light of climate change along with the concepts of adaptation, mitigation, and climate action. This project is financed in part by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany via the NDC Partnership Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP).