Camino
a Copenhague – PNUMA estrenará película
de Bob Dylan em Copenhague
26
– 11 – 09 - El Programa de la ONU para el Medio
Ambiente (PNUMA) estrenará una película producida
por Bob Dylan que aborda el tema del cambio climático
en la víspera de la Conferencia de Copenhague, que
se celebrará del 7 al 18 de diciembre próximo.
El
filme estará disponible en DVD una vez que sea presentado,
combina una serie de grabaciones del músico estadounidense
interpretando en vivo su canción “A hard rain´s
a-gonna fall”, con fotografías sobre los efectos
del cambio climático.
Asimismo,
contiene comentarios sobre el estado del planeta y la población
mundial en este momento crítico desde el punto de
vista ecológico.
El
trabajo cinematográfico muestra las pocas opciones
que tiene el mundo para resolver uno de los problemas más
graves que afronta en la actualidad y plantea la urgencia
de implementar políticas que detengan el cambio climático
y cambien radicalmente el enfoque del aprovechamiento de
los recursos naturales y el desarrollo económico
de todos los países.
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Camino
a Copenhague - Cambio climático amenaza seguridad
alimentaria en el Pacífico, afirma la FAO
26
– 11 – 09 - El cambio climático tendrá
un fuerte impacto en la agricultura, la silvicultura y la
pesca en las islas del Pacífico, lo que llevará
a un incremento de la inseguridad alimentaria y la desnutrición
en la región, alertó hoy la FAO en vísperas
de la cumbre de la ONU sobre el cambio climático
en Copenhague.
El
organismo urgió a los gobiernos y los donantes a
que comiencen a implementar de inmediato planes consistentes
y proactivos de adaptación al cambio climático
en todas esas islas.
La
elevación del nivel del mar, el calentamiento y la
acidificación de los océanos, los cambios
en el régimen de lluvias y el incremento de la frecuencia
de eventos climáticos extremos, tales como ciclones
tropicales y sequías, fueron mencionados entre los
efectos.
Muchos
de estos impactos podrían tener efectos acumulativos
y adversos en los rendimientos agrícolas y pesqueros
y en la seguridad alimentaria, sostuvo la FAO.
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Road
to Copenhagen - Hard Rain Film Released on Eve of Key UN
Climate Talks
11
– 26 – 09 - Bob Dylan's powerful, prophetic
song, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, is set to become the unofficial
soundtrack to the Copenhagen climate talks.
COPENHAGEN,
Denmark. - Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature
by Mark Edwards and Bob Dylan will be released on DVD at
the opening of the Hard Rain exhibition in Copenhagen on
6 December - the eve of the United Nations Climate Conference.
The
film, released in partnership with the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP), combines a rare live recording of Bob Dylan performing
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall with the photographs from Hard
Rain and an extended illustrated commentary, in a moving
and unforgettable exploration of the state of our planet
and its people at this critical time.
The
global issues highlighted in Hard Rain are like pieces of
a jigsaw puzzle that define the 21st century. While each
problem is understood to some degree by decision-makers,
they are typically addressed as separate issues. Hard Rain
puts the pieces together and shows that the world has little
chance to solve any one of them until we understand how
they all connect by cause and effect.
The
DVD is accompanied by a specially commissioned essay by
Lloyd Timberlake. The Urgency of Now cuts through the muddled
thinking and failed policies that have delayed a radically
new worldwide approach to climate change, poverty, the wasteful
use of resources, population expansion, habitat destruction
and species loss. The essay title was inspired by a response
to Hard Rain from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
"If
Hard Rain is a photographic elegy," said Mr Brown,
"it is also an impassioned cry for change. Forceful,
dramatic and disturbing, it is driven by what Martin Luther
King called 'the fierce urgency of now' - and I believe
the call for a truly global response to climate change is
an idea whose time has finally come."
Achim
Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director,
said: "The dark and evocative lyrics of A Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall echo the kind of impacts the world faces if
climate change continues unchecked. But Bob Dylan had another
song. One that reflects a strong and positive Copenhagen
outcome that puts the world on a low-carbon path - The Times
They Are A-Changin'."
Lloyd
Timberlake's essay focuses on a key dilemma facing the climate
negotiators. "Right now," he writes, "we
have two huge challenges to life on earth. One is living
and consuming within planetary means. The other is helping
billions of people toward safe, fulfilled and dignified
lives, meaning that many people need to consume more, not
less, to have a reasonable standard of living. These would
seem to be contradictory goals. Yet we must manage both,
and we cannot manage one without managing the other. Poor
countries will not accept a climate change treaty that prevents
them from developing."
"We
have to give governments a constituency to reinvent the
modern world so that it's compatible with nature and human
nature," says Mark Edwards. "Political change
comes only when people form a movement so large and inclusive
that governments have no choice but to listen - and act.
The last verse of Dylan's song begins 'What'll you do now?'
It's a question that cannot be left hanging when the Copenhagen
talks come to a close."
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