Climate Action - COP23, Costa Rica

Project name:  Climate Action - COP23

Project location: The project will have target public in Latin America. However, the effort will take place during the climate change conference in Bonn, Germany. Also, the radio program that will share some of the material is located in Costa Rica.

Website: https://climate4change.org/climate-action-cop23/

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Project description:

Climate change conferences are the heart of decision-making. We aim to bring Latin America closer to this process. Our team is ready to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP23 to provide easy to understand and insightful information for Spanish speakers everywhere.

We are a volunteer based NGO (La Ruta del Clima): our team has lots of experience, having participated in the past 3 conferences with innovative media campaigns and events.  That is why we ar soliciting your support make real this year´s Climate Action - COP23 project.

Your support will help us send a team of journalists and environmental professionals to this year's conference COP23, where we will work hard to report on advancements on the fight to stop climate change.
We will carry out interviews to important stakeholders, share information in social media, create videos,  participate in side events and specially, our team will dialogue with countries to promote education as a key action to face climate change.

Goal and purpose of the project:

Objective: Advocate for a greater transparency and facilitate the access to information for the public on the actions Latin American countries take at the climate negotiations.
A team of 5 volunteers with expertise in sustainability and communications.
2 week long effort during the climate conference in November 2017.
We will produce insightful and interesting awareness and education multimedia material for Latin Americans on climate change negotiations.
The spanish speaking public will have access to videos, notes, infographics and day to day social media content to follow the most important event in climate change governance.

Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:

In Latin America we are very vulnerable climate change but this is not our only worry, issues such as poverty, disasters and poor access to education are always in the agenda.

This makes it harder for  climate change to be in the top agenda of politicians, NGOs and the public. We work hard to show the links between climate change and sustainable development. We know is important and want the public to help us. 

Public participation is key to maintain this issue at the top agendas of government and the private sector. If citizens participate we can make make the right decisions and speed up the actions needed to secure a sustainable, adaptable and low carbon society.

Climate Action  COP23 is a project to boost awareness and provide more information to Latin American public on Climate Change.  

Use of prize money:

Climate Action is a project of advocacy and awareness.

We need resources to send 5 volunteers to the Climate Change Conference during 2 weeks.
The team will work 14 days continuously doing interviews, videos, writing notes and sharing on social media important details to make this negotiations more understandable, Also, we will be advocating in Side Events for the relevance of education and awareness in the fight on climate change.
We need $8.000 usd to fund this actions in order to cover the accommodation, food, materials and transportation.