Powerful stories from around the world showing how renewable energy and energy efficiency are changing lives will be showcased in a photo exhibition in central Lima from today. PROLIMA, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Momentum for Change Initiative of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Magnum Photos, have collaborated to present The Future is Priceless: We have the Power.
From market transformation for efficient lighting in Chile to bus rapid transit systems in Lima, these photo essays show responses to climate change being implemented around the globe. They highlight the kinds of solutions that need to be scaled up and replicated around the world to help close the emissions gap and keep global warming to just 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The pictures were selected by the photographers to highlight the clean energy evolution already under way. For more than a year, Magnum photographers have travelled the world to capture the work being done by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), UN- Habitat, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC), the Copenhagen Centre for Energy Efficiency (C2E2) and its partners. These pictures show that the tools exist to meet our energy needs without compromising the health and wellbeing of the planet for future generations. They also demonstrate that it is possible to implement them quickly when needed.
More information on the photo essays
Opening to the public from 4 to 12 December 2014 in the Plaza San Martin, Lima, Peru.
About Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is a photographic cooperative of great distinction that is owned by its photographer-members. Acclaimed for their powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its people, events, issues and personalities with empathy for their subject matter. Founded at the MoMA after the close of World War II in1947 by the legendary Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour, Magnum Photos celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007. Today the agency encompasses over 70 members of extraordinary talent and diversity and reflects a longstanding tradition of individual vision. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, a digital library of 450,000 images, and a network of 15 subagents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, galleries, and museums across the world. Its Cultural Department produces more than 200 exhibitions per year worldwide. By capturing defining moments of the 20th century with iconic images that have shaped our collective memory, Magnum Photos continues to set a standard for photographic integrity and authorship.
About UNEP
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the voice for the environment in the UN system. Established in 1972, UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP is an advocate, educator, catalyst and facilitator, promoting the wise use of the planet’s natural assets for sustainable development. It works with many partners, UN entities, international organizations, national Governments, non-governmental organizations, business, industry, the media and civil society. UNEP’s work involves providing support for: environmental assessment and reporting; legal and institutional strengthening and environmental policy development; sustainable use and management of natural resources; integration of economic development and environmental protection; and promoting public participation in environmental management.
About Momentum for Change
Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat to shine a light on the enormous groundswell of activities underway across the globe that are moving the world toward a highly resilient, low-carbon future. Momentum for Change recognizes innovative and transformative solutions that address both climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.
Photo ©Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos for UNEP
Kenya. 2014. Ngong Hills. A Masai girl walks by KenGen’s wind power site outside Nairobi.
Photographs have to be credited if published
Source: UNFCCC/UNEP press release from 04.12.2014Powerful stories from around the world showing how renewable energy and energy efficiency are changing lives will be showcased in a photo exhibition in central Lima from today. PROLIMA, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Momentum for Change Initiative of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Magnum Photos, have collaborated to present The Future is Priceless: We have the Power.
From market transformation for efficient lighting in Chile to bus rapid transit systems in Lima, these photo essays show responses to climate change being implemented around the globe. They highlight the kinds of solutions that need to be scaled up and replicated around the world to help close the emissions gap and keep global warming to just 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The pictures were selected by the photographers to highlight the clean energy evolution already under way. For more than a year, Magnum photographers have travelled the world to capture the work being done by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), UN- Habitat, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC), the Copenhagen Centre for Energy Efficiency (C2E2) and its partners. These pictures show that the tools exist to meet our energy needs without compromising the health and wellbeing of the planet for future generations. They also demonstrate that it is possible to implement them quickly when needed.
More information on the photo essays
Opening to the public from 4 to 12 December 2014 in the Plaza San Martin, Lima, Peru.
About Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is a photographic cooperative of great distinction that is owned by its photographer-members. Acclaimed for their powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its people, events, issues and personalities with empathy for their subject matter. Founded at the MoMA after the close of World War II in1947 by the legendary Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour, Magnum Photos celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007. Today the agency encompasses over 70 members of extraordinary talent and diversity and reflects a longstanding tradition of individual vision. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, a digital library of 450,000 images, and a network of 15 subagents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, galleries, and museums across the world. Its Cultural Department produces more than 200 exhibitions per year worldwide. By capturing defining moments of the 20th century with iconic images that have shaped our collective memory, Magnum Photos continues to set a standard for photographic integrity and authorship.
About UNEP
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the voice for the environment in the UN system. Established in 1972, UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP is an advocate, educator, catalyst and facilitator, promoting the wise use of the planet’s natural assets for sustainable development. It works with many partners, UN entities, international organizations, national Governments, non-governmental organizations, business, industry, the media and civil society. UNEP’s work involves providing support for: environmental assessment and reporting; legal and institutional strengthening and environmental policy development; sustainable use and management of natural resources; integration of economic development and environmental protection; and promoting public participation in environmental management.
About Momentum for Change
Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat to shine a light on the enormous groundswell of activities underway across the globe that are moving the world toward a highly resilient, low-carbon future. Momentum for Change recognizes innovative and transformative solutions that address both climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.
Photo ©Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos for UNEP
Kenya. 2014. Ngong Hills. A Masai girl walks by KenGen’s wind power site outside Nairobi.
Photographs have to be credited if published
Source: UNFCCC/UNEP press release from 04.12.2014