Voting opens to select the winners of the tvebiomovies Global You Video Competition

With 40 videos of inspiring action now live for viewing, the 2016 tvebiomovies Global Youth Video Competition, supported by UNFCCC, has now moved into its final exciting phase.

The competition received an overwhelming response, with over 180 entrants from 77 countries submitting short video reports on their personal climate actions and public awareness activities. The stories range from developing cycle routes in Ukraine and generating solar energy in Lebanon, to creating rain water systems in Venezuela and climate boot camps in Uganda.

With 20 shortlisted entries in each of two categories, Climate Action and Public Awareness, and each view counting as a vote until 23 September, the viewing public will now select the winning films. The prize for each of the two finalists is an invitation to Morocco to attend the UN climate meeting as youth reporters.

Notes to editors

The Global Youth Video Competition on Climate change is supported by the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is part of tvebiomovies 2016, the seventh successful year of the online film initiative competition. Alongside the Global Youth Video category, the competition invited entries for short film proposals in the following categories: The GEF prize for biodiversity, the GEF prize for forests, the Lighthouse Foundation prize for oceans and seas, the IFAD prize for family farmers, and the tve prize for Reusing and Recycling. The final six films, three in each category, are now being commissioned and will be streamed online and open for voting from 16 October. Three sustainable worlds have also been commissioned for the Sustainable Worlds on Minecraft competition supported by Connect4Climate.

Over 40 entries were received in the #stopthatdrop water-saving short film competition on Instagram. The three winners are now available on our website.

tve creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. www.tve.org

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