Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water Film Festival launched in Tokyo, Japan

The First Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water Film festival will be launched in Tokyo, Japan at the China-India-Japan Forum in July 2008. This film festival will then travel to countries such as India, China, Korea, USA, Greece, New Zealand and others up to December 2009. About the Film Festival: ------------------------------------------------- This film festival aims to bring to the forefront the youth of various nations in an intergenerational partnership to harness the tremendous power of change and vitality in them. The festival is meant to be organised with the help of local institutions, colleges, universities, high schools with young people from the hosting organizations acting as co-ordinators. Water resource issues interact with a wide range of socio-economic and environmental sectors including health, agriculture, biodiversity, public safety, industry and navigation. Indeed, there are few activities that do not in some way depend on or interact with water resources. Hence the need of the hour is to highlight these issues through this youth driven Climate Change and Water Film Festival. To participate or host this Film Festival: Contact: filmfestival@globalcitizens.org.in ,and regionally Asia - Anugraha John: ajohn316@globalcitizens.org.in USA - Nina Gregg: ngregg@att.net and charter.US@alliance21.org Europe - Yolanda Ziaka: charte.europe@otenet.gr Pacific - Betsan Martin: betsan@response.org.nz Of the many social, economic and environmental impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change, the projected effects on the qualitative and quantitative status of world water resources is a critical area for people's lives and the economy. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilized today, increases in temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water availability and flooding will continue for decades. The main climate change consequences related to water resources are increases in temperature, shifts in precipitation patterns and snow cover, an increase in the frequency of flooding and droughts, and the possible large impact of future sea-level rises. There is also a growing body of knowledge on the nature and scale of future impacts. This has led to an increasing urgency to adapt water resource management to meet the future challenges. *About this Film Festival * Today one-third of the world population comprises of youth and every nation's hope is in youth. We believe as organizers of this Film festival that Youth have tremendous potential and can make a difference on alarming issues such as these. It is also true that youth cannot do it on their own thus youth will make Intergenerational partnership to bring this Change. But someone has to take a lead and this time it would be young people. This festival will be hosted with the help of local universities, colleges and high school or Non-governmental Organizations addressing issues locally and globally. Youth from the institution/s which hosts this festival will be the joint coordinator/s for such a festival. This film festival could be either a half a day to four days festival depending on the budget raised or resources mobilized by local institutions. We as organizers are not going to help financially but find different resources within the institution to mobilize such an event. Today quite few institutions have their own LCD projector, sound system and a classroom. That's most of what we need, films and Speakers/Experts for a discussion after the film festival we will organize. If you think this is not going to work, we would like to tell you it did work earlier with the World Youth Water Alliance Film festival (a program of the Global Citizens for Sustainable Development) successfully hosted in India, China, Philippines, Japan and USA. Please see the link:http://wateralliance.org/Events.html The first film festival will be launched in Tokyo, Japan at the China-India-Japan Forum in July 2008. This film festival will then travel to countries such as India, China, Korea, USA, Greece, New Zealand and others up to December 2009.