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July 25, 2014

 

 

 

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Youth climate stories featured in Times Square

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Connect4Climate has partnered with MTV Voices to celebrate youth climate action documentaries, exhibiting a 30 second compilation of Action4Climate competition submissions on two massive Broadway displays on Times Square. From 22 July until 29 July 2014, the youth stories will be presented on LED displays that are positioned in the heart of Times Square at 1515 Broadway.

See the stories and share your own #Action4Climate.

 

Action4Climate stories mapped

Improved cookstoves in Rwanda. Photograph: Alphonse Karenzi/Connect4Climate

After the Action4Climate competition closed on April 1, the Connect4Climate team was thrilled to realize that Action4Climate received more than 230 entries from 70 countries - and every inhabited continent in the world. With such diverse stories, we wanted to make an interactive map to showcase the films.

Click around the map, and watch the videos (including the highlights in red) to hear what youth worldwide are saying about climate change.

 

The fight against desertification is working

Victoria Burns and her mother in Kiribati. Photo: Victoria Burns 

Every year, 24 billion tons of fertile soils are lost to erosion while 12 million hectares of land are degraded through drought and the encroachment of desert. With every hectare of land lost, we also lose tons of potential grain, which makes life even more of an ordeal for the 1.5 billion people worldwide who make their living off degraded land.

But as we celebrate World Desertification Day this year, there is also new hope as two billion hectares of degraded land have the potential to be restored.

Read more to find out how threatened land is being protected.

 

 

 

 

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