The British Council, the Permanent Mission of the Maldives to the United Nations office at Geneva and the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos have jointly organised “Turning the Tide”, an international climate change photo exhibition during the main annual Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
We have asked young climate witnesses from around the world to go out into their community to create a photographic record of the way in which climate change and its consequences are affecting the human environment, including the lives, livelihoods and human rights of local people. 45 fantastic entries from over 30 countries were received and the twelve winning submissions will now be shown at the Palais des Nations at the UN in Geneva from 3rd March 2009 - 31 March 2009, during the 10th session of the Human Rights Council.
The photographs highlight the challenges their communities are facing and how they are living and coping with the changing environment. “Turning the Tide” is about their climate stories. We hope to show the exhibition during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in late 2009.