Environment

Day 5 at COP21 and things are starting to hot up, today Saudi Arabia took away the prize for Fossil of the Day.

Formby is the fastest eroding property in the National Trust’s care. This film by Green.TV for the Trust shows how they are working with partners to adapt to the rapid and long term changes this stretch of coastline is experiencing to protect both landscape and wildlife. For the full report go to https:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shiftings­hores

Sometimes it seems the world's environmental and social problems are too complex to solve. This group of 8-year old children show how simple much of these issues really are. Film from Bristol-based Love The Future Find events, stories and inspiration at www.lovethefuture.co.uk; @welovethefuture; facebook.com/lovethefuturebristol

This year, Paris will host the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): a long and important name for a conference with even more important results. The COP21 will be addressing the increasingly critical issue of climate disruption and what exactly we, as … Continue reading #ActInParis →

This short is for the climate confused. In this video we'll be myth-busting the most common statements made against the validity of climate change.

RESTORATION is the fourth film in Green World Rising, (http://www.greenworldrising.org ) a series of films aimed at moving the climate debate forward. The film focuses on how nature can protect the Earth from the harmful effects of climate change and how industrial design and science researchers can learn valuable lessons from natural systems.

Green World Rising is the 3rd film in the Green World Rising series. The film shows how we can be 100% off fossil fuels in a few decades. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners and produced by George DiCaprio, Mathew Schmid, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled. Music composed … Continue reading Green World Rising: How To Solve Climate Change →

The TPP isn't just another pesky acronym, it's a whole lot worse. In less than two minutes, this video explains the dangers a massive trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have on our ability to tackle the climate crisis. Watch, share, and take action to demand fair trade, not toxic trade. More info, visit: … Continue reading What is the TPP? (Trans-Pacific Partnership) →

To mark World Environment Day on 5 June 2015 we're celebrating Bristol, one of the most exciting, creative and sustainable cities in the world. In 2015 it's also European Green Capital. Bristol resident and TV presenter Natalie Fee users her Nissan LEAF to take us around the city pointing out some of its beautiful and … Continue reading Bristol European Green Capital 2015: A Green Tour Of A Green City →

If you think about it, water links to almost everything in the world. Health. Nature. Urbanization. Industry. Energy. Food. Equality. In 2015, the world will agree on how we want to shape our sustainable future. And for this future to happen we need water and sanitation. Learn more at www.worldwaterday.org

The ocean is so acidic that it is dissolving the shells of our baby oysters,” says Diani Taylor of Taylor Shellfish Farms in Shelton, Washington. She and her cousin Brittany are fifth-generation oyster farmers, and are grappling with ocean waters that are more acidic and corrosive than their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers knew. This “ocean … Continue reading Oyster Farmers and Ocean Acidification →

Farmers sometimes get a bad press but their role as ‘custodians of the countryside’ is more important than ever. Four previous winners of ‘The Nature of Farming Awards’ talk about their passion for nature and why wildlife-friendly farming can also make commercial sense.

Can we imagine a film that would change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain simply, to everyone, the greatest natural mystery of our planet? And lastly, can we help our children believe in a better and more sustainable world tomorrow? This is the triple challenge of a new cinema adventure signed … Continue reading Planet Ocean →

The World We Made (Alex McKay's Story from 2050), by leading environmentalist and broadcaster Jonathon Porritt. Buy your copy today: http://bit.ly/19WlteT In this episode we look at where we grow our food in 2050. How do we feed an ever growing population?

Change the way you think about food, we are literally eating the planet. Today we use 1/3 of the planet's surface to produce food, by 2050 we will need twice as much food. Today it takes one litre of water to create one calorie of food. What will it be in the future? Can we … Continue reading Eating the Planet →

Mangrove forests, such as the one of La Tirana in the coast of El Salvador, are part of a complex ecosystem that protects coastlines from erosion and filters coastal waters. Communities living in and around these forests depend on this natural resource for their livelihoods and care for the biodiversity of these fragile ecosystems. The … Continue reading Mangrove →

South South Cooperation is sweeping the globe. Find out how UNEP's South South Cooperation Exchange Mechanism is helping the southern hemisphere find solutions for an environmentally sustainable future for southern countries…and beyond.

Discover our mission, our achievements and our passions, and meet a few of the people who make our work possible, in an inspiring video.

The mayor and other residents of Point Hope, Alaska share their concerns about Shell's offshore drilling plans in the Arctic. Residents of this town, also known as “Tikigaq,” have survived for generations off the bounty of the Chukchi Sea, which is now threatened by pollution, noise, and the risk of an oil spill that would … Continue reading Point Hope, Alaska and Shell’s offshore drilling plans →

On June 9, 2012, the countries of the Coral Triangle came together to celebrate their single most important shared resource: the oceans. From local communities to NGOs, responsible businesses to government agencies, people from all walks of life organized and participated in exciting events across the region. This was the Coral Triangle Day, it is … Continue reading Coral Triangle Day →

The Healthy Ocean Project campaign aims to educate the America's Cup audience on the issues our ocean faces, inspire them to take personal action, and leave a legacy long after the winner of the 34th America's Cup is declared in San Francisco.

There's a low-key end to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, with campaigners and scientists criticising missed opportunities and lack of progress to protect the world's oceans. Charlotte Smith of Oceans Inc takes the temperature as the summit draws to a close.

Oceans campaigners at the Rio+20 Earth Summit have welcomes a ruling that the supermarket giant Intermarché made false claims about sustainable seafood. The French advertising authority told Intermarché they must pull all the offending advertisements relating to deep sea fish.

Negotiations to get better protection for the world's oceans may have faltered at the Rio+20 Earth Summit, but on the other side of town the so-called “People's Summit” is showing the politicians how it should be done. Charlotte Smith of Oceans Inc reports…

Royalty and celebrities turn out for the premiere of “Planet Ocean”, the latest film from French director Yann Arthus-Betrand, in Rio de Janeiro, where heads of state are gathering for the climax of the Earth Summit. The filmmaker says he wants to change the way people look at the world's oceans.

The final draft conference text on oceans delays action on protecting international waters – just as civil society groups vote it top priority in their session. The United States denies it blocked progress – the High Seas Alliance coalition issues a stern rebuke.

Twenty years after the original Earth Summit, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrives in Rio to urge politicians and negotiators not to leave the oceans out of any new deal to protect the planet. Thousands of visitors take the chance to look round the organisation's newest and greenest vessel.

As momentum builds at the Rio+20 Earth Summit, two leading oceans experts point the finger at US negotiators as the stumbling block for a new treaty, but praise Brazil for taking the lead.

Professor Alex Rogers, Scientific Director of the International Programme on the State of the Oceans (IPSO), reflects on a lack of progress on ocean protection in the twenty years since the original Earth Summit, and calls for greater action at Rio+20.

Oceans Inc presenter Charlotte Smith talks to Sue Lieberman of the Pew Environment Group about her aspirations for the Rio+20 Earth Summit and her views of the new Global Partnership for Oceans announced by the UN and the World Bank.

More than 80 governments, organisations and private companies have signed up for a new Global Partnership for the Oceans at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The World Bank initiative focuses on reducing pollution, protecting habitat and sustainable fishing.

Climate change has had a devastating impact on coffee farmers in Peru with torrential rain and flooding destroying their crops. Cafedirect's ground breaking reforestation project is helping to mitigate these problems and create an innovative sustainable financing solution.

The Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem Project is an ecosystem based effort to assist countries adjacent to the Guinea Current Ecosystem to achieve environmental and resource sustainability. This would be accomplished by shifting from short-term sector by sector driven management objectives to a longer-term perspective and from managing commodities to sustaining the production potential for … Continue reading The Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem Project →