11.06.2015 | DIE: Science meets Music – How global warming beyond 1.5°C affects the Caribbean

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) cordially invites you to a public screening and subsequent discussion of the film “1.5° Stay Alive” by Lucian Segura on Thursday 11 June 2015, 18:30 h at the LVR-Landesmuseum in Bonn.

The film – combining several genres like documentary, music video and nature film – shows the Caribbean environment’s diversity and beauty while also emphasising a dramatic message: While the international community fights to limit global warming to two degrees, experts show that already 1.5 degrees of global warming would have dramatic consequences for the citizens and the environment of the Caribbean. The film presents Caribbean contrasts, from Haiti and Trinidad to Florida and New Orleans; gives both researchers and victims a voice and also shows how musicians and singers interpret the problem “climate change” in different stylistic ways. Tilman Altenburg, head of department “Sustainable Economic and Social Development” at DIE, and other international climate experts contributed with their know-how and research results to the documentary.

After the premiere, director Lucian Segura, Carlos Fuller (Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre), Rueanna Haynes (UN-Representative for Trinidad and Tobago) and Tilman Altenburg will discuss the challenges the film refers to with the audience. The panelists will also talk about the most important issues to deal with at the preparing conference for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 in Paris. This preparing conference will take place in Bonn at the beginning of June and will prenegotiate the most controversial topics, in order to pave the way for passing an ambitious climate agreement in Paris.

DIE presents this film within the scope of “Klimalog”, a project financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). With “Klimalog” DIE promotes awareness for interlinkages between climate and development policy and furthers a goal-oriented dialogue between pertinent actors in politics, academia, civil society and the private sector. The project focuses on key issues in the ongoing round of UN climate negotiations and their implications for international co-operation with developing countries and emerging economies.

Screening and discussion will be held in English.

Source: Information by DIE from 21.05.2015The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) cordially invites you to a public screening and subsequent discussion of the film “1.5° Stay Alive” by Lucian Segura on Thursday 11 June 2015, 18:30 h at the LVR-Landesmuseum in Bonn.

The film – combining several genres like documentary, music video and nature film – shows the Caribbean environment’s diversity and beauty while also emphasising a dramatic message: While the international community fights to limit global warming to two degrees, experts show that already 1.5 degrees of global warming would have dramatic consequences for the citizens and the environment of the Caribbean. The film presents Caribbean contrasts, from Haiti and Trinidad to Florida and New Orleans; gives both researchers and victims a voice and also shows how musicians and singers interpret the problem “climate change” in different stylistic ways. Tilman Altenburg, head of department “Sustainable Economic and Social Development” at DIE, and other international climate experts contributed with their know-how and research results to the documentary.

After the premiere, director Lucian Segura, Carlos Fuller (Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre), Rueanna Haynes (UN-Representative for Trinidad and Tobago) and Tilman Altenburg will discuss the challenges the film refers to with the audience. The panelists will also talk about the most important issues to deal with at the preparing conference for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2015 in Paris. This preparing conference will take place in Bonn at the beginning of June and will prenegotiate the most controversial topics, in order to pave the way for passing an ambitious climate agreement in Paris.

DIE presents this film within the scope of “Klimalog”, a project financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). With “Klimalog” DIE promotes awareness for interlinkages between climate and development policy and furthers a goal-oriented dialogue between pertinent actors in politics, academia, civil society and the private sector. The project focuses on key issues in the ongoing round of UN climate negotiations and their implications for international co-operation with developing countries and emerging economies.

Screening and discussion will be held in English.

Source: Information by DIE from 21.05.2015