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An Inconvenient Truth 10-year Anniversary

5/16/2016

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The 10-year anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth may as well mark my 10-year intense involvement in campaigning against climate change, although I have been working on environmental management since the 1980s.
 
The movie, An Inconvenient Truth, premiered in 2006 is a documentary by Director Davis Guggenheim that weaves the science of global warming with former Vice President Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change.
 
The documentary got the world talking about climate change and was just the beginning of a climate revolution.  Later that year, Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to take the conversation forward and turn awareness into action.
 
Academy Awards & Nobel Prize
 
An Inconvenient Truth won the 2007 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song as well as more than 15 other awards for best documentary.
 
It was an inspiration when we in Indonesia were busy preparing for Bali Climate Change Conference in 2007. We could even still feel the impact of the movie at Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015.
 
Vice President Gore was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for, “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
 
He went to Bali right after the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm and gave a memorable speech:“The greatest opportunity inherent in this climate crisis is not only to quickly deploy the new technologies that will facilitate sustainable development, and create the new jobs and to lift standards of living. The greatest opportunity is that in rising to meet the climate crisis, we in our generation will find the moral authority and capacity for long term vision to get our act together in this world and to take on these other crises, not political problems, and solve them……We are one people on one planet. We have one future, one destiny. We must pursue it together, and we can.”
 
Indonesia Climate Leaders
 
An Inconvenient Truth was one of the deciding factors for the establishment of The Climate Reality Project Indonesia, now with 350 climate leaders, that began with my training in Montreal in April 2008.
 
Climate leaders all over the world, including Indonesia, volunteer tirelessly under the guidance of Mr. Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project team to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.
 
At the Paris Climate Change Conference, amidst his hectic schedule, Vice President Gore visited Pavilion Indonesia, managed by climate leaders inside the United Nations Compound, for a special remarks. He highlighted the special qualities of young generation in solving the climate crisis:“Young people have played the key role, young people have always had more energy and have often had a clearer vision of what is right or wrong compared to old people. Young people are far more active and readily confess that it is immoral to use the atmosphere as an open sewer and to ignore the warnings of scientists and mother nature.”
 
More than 20% Indonesian  climate leaders were trained when they were between the ages of 13 – 18 and most were inspired to become climate activists by the movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
 
One Voice to Solve the Climate Crisis
 
At the end of the Paris Climate Change Conference, Vice President Gore gave his statement: “Today, the nations of the world concluded a bold and historic agreement, clearly demonstrating that the global community is speaking with one voice to solve the climate crisis……No agreement is perfect, and this one must be strengthened over time, but groups across every sector of society will now begin to reduce dangerous carbon pollution through the framework of this agreement.”
 
As the Manager of The Climate Reality Project Indonesia I am honored to work with the Climate Reality Team with a network of climate reality leaders all over the world.
 
The Climate Reality Project Indonesia will organize a watch party to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth, with a message to be continuously interested, engaged and actively involved in the fight against climate change.
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Text: Amanda Katili Niode. Manager, The Climate Reality Project Indonesia
Image: Paramount Pictures


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Climate Change and Sustainable Development

5/15/2016

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 A few days ago, several Indonesian climate leaders attended a round table discussion on Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Office of the President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change
 
There were two objectives for the discussion. First, to discuss the link between climate change and sustainable development. Second, to discuss the various challenges and opportunities related to climate change and sustainable development goals.
 

Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
 
Last year, as many as 193 Member States of the United Nations unanimously adopted a global agenda, 17 Sustainable Development Goals, to end poverty by 2030 and pursue a sustainable future. Whereas, 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted a landmark deal, the Paris Agreement, to combat climate change, and unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future.
 
The Sustainable Development Goals not only contain a distinct climate change goal (Goal No. 13), but climate action is also integral to the successful implementation of most of the other SDGs under the agenda.
 
The UNFCCC Secretariat outlined three factors that affect every goal:
  1. Climate Impacts Eat Away at Every Positive Human Goal
  2. Sustainability Demands Rapid Progress to Low-Carbon State
  3. Inequality, Ignorance and Injustice Kill Effective Climate Action
 
As stated by the Executive Director of the UNFCCC: “Key actors across government, the private sector and civil society, are shaping their vision on how they can best contribute to that objective. We have a short window of opportunity to align strategies and to sharpen the focus on the urgency of implementation. Strategic approaches developed this year will shape the overall path for years to come.”
 
Resource Persons
 
Rachmat Witoelar, President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change welcomed participants and encouraged stakeholders to collaborate, including national government, sub-national governments as well as non-state actors, to address climate change and to achieve sustainable development goals.
 
The roundtable discussion had two eminent resource persons: 
Dr. Shiv Someshwar, Director, Climate Policy at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Dr. Jatna Supriatna, Chairman of Research Center for Climate Change, University of Indonesia and Chairman of the Sustainable Development Solutions Indonesia Network (SDSN).
 
A changing climate (variability of climate), according to Dr. Shiv Someshwar, is the dominant rival for development in developing countries. In addition to mitigation and adaptation that continue to be the concerns of the global community, three other aspects important for developing countries:
  1. Complexity, encompassing population growth; aspirations of communities to achieve social welfare similar to developed countries;  exchange of ideas, information and knowledge; and the economic relation between supply and demand.
  2. Uncertainty in the social, environmental and political aspects of economic growth.
  3. Spatiality in terms of  local complexities in the context of global climate change.
 
Meanwhile, Dr. Jatna Supriatna stressed the importance of understanding that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are interrelated, not only as the root causes relationships but also in their system dynamics.
 
As an example, the system approach is beneficial in recognizing the complexity of the energy sector, which demonstrates the need for a shift from fossil energy to renewable energy (by looking at the variables of climate change, air pollution, energy security, and affordability).
 
In the current critical situation of climate change, the need for dissemination for public awareness becomes vital. Because climate change is likely to change all aspects of human life.
 
Youth Network
 
Last September, as Chairman of SDSN Indonesia Dr. Jatna Supriatna launched the Indonesia SDSN Youth Network. Its mission is to empower Indonesian  youth to create sustainable solutions. Through education and cooperation it aims to amplify the tremendous energy and capabilities of youth in generating broader buy-in for the Sustainable Development Goals.
 
The round table discussion on Climate Change and Sustainable Development was well attended by representatives of Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Communication and Information, Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Civil Societies, and Universities.
 
Indonesia is obliged to put forward its national interests, while continuing to contribute to the fight against climate change and achieving sustainable development goals. It would be ideal if all developing nations replicate these measures, and in turn push developed nations to do more and to take the lead on necessary actions.
 
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Text: Amanda Katili Niode. Manager, The Climate Reality Project Indonesia.
Image: United Nations


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