{"id":1886,"date":"2015-12-08T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2015-12-08T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:34:20","slug":"creative-climate-communications-at-cop21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/12\/08\/creative-climate-communications-at-cop21\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Climate Communications at COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Max Boykoff<\/p>\n

Inside the Greenhouse<\/em><\/a>
\nDecember 5, 2015<\/p>\n

Despite a current ban on a ban on public demonstrations the Paris area \u2013 and particularly around the Champs-Elysees in central Paris and in Le Bourget through the end of next week (two days after the scheduled end to the Paris round of negotiations) \u2013 creative communications on climate change at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) this past week have proliferated.<\/p>\n

Look no further than the \u2018silent march\u2019, organized by Avaaz and other organizations, where 20,000 pairs of shoes were laid out in Place de la R\u00e9publique<\/a> to provide symbolic public pressure for climate policy action at COP21.<\/p>\n

Entering the venue in Le Bourget, the maps themselves represented forms of creative communication on climate change.<\/p>\n

Common and integrated spaces were limited to permissible\/tolerated locations. Nonetheless, the photo below\u00a0depicts a \u2018Divestment\/Keep it in the Ground\u2019 noontime demonstration in front of the replica Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n

In more formal spaces, there were many events and activities such as a Connect4Climate-sponsored \u2018Youth4Climate\u2019 session<\/a> featuring the upcoming 2016 film \u2018An Inconvenient Youth\u2019 (by Slater Jewell-Kemker) along with a panel Kumi Naidoo, Bianca Jagger, Fernando Mereilles, and moderator Max Edkins.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the \u2018ArtCOP21<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 in Ga\u00eet\u00e9 lyrique and connected to others around the world in solidarity \u2013 has convened many creative communicators, and featured many art works where, through their activities, they pronounce \u2018Climate is culture\u2019.<\/p>\n

In addition to many spirited and creative events, there are seemingly countless informal interactions and confrontations as well, from the riff of \u2018Arche de Noe\u2019 in an exhibit inside the COP21<\/a> \u2013 commissioned by the French Ministry of Environment and Development\u00a0\u2013 to more renegade and subversive work of UK-based \u2018Brandalism\u2019, who called attention to corporate-influence in mainstream discussions of options for climate action through their 600 fake outdoor advertisements throughout central Paris<\/a>. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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