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'Fighting for Climate Justice' by Fayth Muliaina

My art explains the Pacific people's cry for climate justice because climate change is rapidly leading to extinction of peoples, lands and a way of life. There is so much environmental injustice in the world and we are vulnerable to climate change, despite contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions. My art shows the Pacific Island youths voicing their concerns to the International Court of Justice

By: Fayth Muliaina
Samoa

Youth Art

'The Great Collapse' by Jack Caldow

"My artwork is an expression of hope and despair from a youths perspective growing up in the face of climate change. It is a creative outlet after reading the latest findings by scientific studies regarding climate change. I have a small accompanying message with the artwork that I hope will both shock and inspire the viewers mindset with regards to this calamity:

We are committing matricide on a global scale.
Within a century our impacts may surpass that of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Our choices in the next 10 years will directly influence how the next 1000 will go.
If we don’t slow emissions, agricultural expansion and overconsumption our grandchildren will live in a world without polar ice caps, without coral reefs, without coastal cities, without island nations, without half of the magnificent biodiversity on Earth today. Where 2 billion people are now climate refugees due to rising seas and temperatures. Where atmosphere pollution means the leading cause of respiratory disease is not smoking but simply breathing the outdoor air.
It is already too late to stop severe climate change, the fat lady has sung, however it is not too late to stop it getting worse, there is hope in the minds of the youth.
How we choose to buy, what we choose to eat and how we choose to vote in the coming years will determine whether our grandchildren get to grow up in a future utopia or another mad max movie…."

By: Jack Caldow
Australia

'Plant for Life By Youth in Action' by Ashnal Bhawik Chand

The photograph is of my brother and his friends planting trees for life. This was part of their community medicine project for which they had to support SDGs in Fiji. This picture showcases that if youths get together and help out in creating a better surrounding, we will have a sustainable environment and a promising future for all. Plants are like the lungs of this beautiful planet earth and planting more will help create more oxygen by taking in the toxic gases we produce by exhaustion and driving automobiles that lead to global warming and eventually climate change in the long run.

By Ashnal Bhawik Chand
Fiji

'My Drowning Island' by Gleason Puiahi

As you can see the whole idea behind my art work or drawing is a simple expression of experience, for me as a solomon islander facing one of the major pacific islands common threat which is sea level rise drowning my island. It also demonstrate how foreigners used my resource unwisely that the next generation will not afford to use, as like in our elders time of using our resource.

By: Gleason Puiahi
Solomon Islands

'Karika Inaomatam b'a rikiraken tamaroan abam' by Katuatetang Ritimati

What i understand is that climate change can affect living matters such as it affects the weather patterns it will cause rise in sea level from all the human activities that have contributed to worsen the impacts... most things in our lives have been changing from trying to adapt to a stronger world in the era of climate change, that our usual local materials have to change from sailing canoes to ships to face the strong currents and changed weather patterns as we take our sea journeys for instance. Additionally our sea resources are affected as the sea temperature rises from global warming and oir fish would move from usual spots to the deeper ocean causing a whole lot of changes in the rest of the marine ecosystem. This would affect our natural ways of living in terms of our fish catch and dish. Our lamds would be worsely affected as climate change continues with the impacts on earth. Our soils will be badly affected as sea level rises causing top surface impact on soil fertility which will the affect our crops and trees we feed on. In the picture our main source of living, coconut tree, will be worsley affected as a result of the sea level rise to soil infertility. This will somehkw completely change the system that our people are used to everday with the parts thay coconut trees jave in our life if they one day vanish.
But, theres only one thing that Climate change can never change despite all that it could give us as result of all the changes it causes from the changing weather patterns and rising temperatures. Climate change will never change amd will never take away our"CULTURE"
Our culture lives and will be there as we all learn and pass on by heart to each generation.
We only need to be flexible to adapt to the new ecosystem and be able to use the new materials that we can continue our culture with for each generation that comes.
It is the way we pass on our stories of our strong culture that matters and nothing, no one and not even Climate change can ever take away The richness of our Kiribati Culture which will always survive as we pachange.ss it on through the different eras of climate

By: Katuatetang Ritimati
Kiribati

'Vanishing Islands' by Rachna Anjani Lal

The painting depicts how the pacific islands are suffering from the effects of climate change. Natural disasters such as cyclones and hurricanes are frequently experienced in the pacific. All pacific islands are victims of sea-level rise, many islands are on their verge of vanishing. The painting portrays that the islands are weeping because they are being engulfed by the sea.

By: Rachna Anjani Lal
Fiji

'Save and Protect Mother Nature! Its our Home and Pride' by Avitesh Ram

My art is categorized as a placard. The placard has a note on it, which is, "SAVE AND PROTECT MOTHER NATURE! IT'S OUR HOME AND PRIDE". This note simply means that as a human being it's our right to protect save our beautiful earth. On the left side there is a purple angle with a bow and arrow, which is giving us the command that we should understand the importance of mother nature and take a step ahead to protect it always and not to take it lightly on whatever is noted on the placard. On the right hand side the hand is carrying the important elements which are; [earth, water, green environment, fire], this diagram tells us that we always should take hid that this 4 elements are so important and it should be take cared and protected always. Outside the placard the Green leaves and flowers gives a message that we should always plant more flowers and plants which will give our environment a beauty shine look.

By: Avitesh Vikash Ram
Fiji

'Negative Effects of Climate Change on Human Rights by Yashmeet Kuar Singh

My painting is about the Negative Effects of Climate Change on Human Rights. The painting has two parts, as the first part of the painting describes the developments that are taking place in the world which includes building roads, houses, factories, airports and many more due to the increase in population and also the demand which lead to cutting down of tress and replacing them with building and roads. Therefore due to the developments there are high percentages of pollution that are been released .
Furthermore, the second part of the painting describes what has happened when the trees are been replaced by building due to that the temperature of the atmosphere has increased (Global Warming) and resulted in climate change which includes storms, floods, heat waves, and droughts. When talking about the human right the right to have adequate housing ensures that people enjoy physical and mental health and live in a safe place in peace and dignity but due to flooding the people are highly affect, their house are washed away and they find it difficult to stay in a safe place and also the right to have rights such as sanitation, water, food, and healthcare are affected as due to droughts plants are unable to grow and people find it hard to have good health some gets sick and die. To conclude Climate Change in my country like Fiji and other countries has Negative Effects on Human Rights.

By: Yashmeet Kuar Singh
Fiji

'Start Now or Go Down!' by Jonathan Koh

Our human actions are gradually sinking our planet. The climate is getting hotter everyday due to the trapping of the heat by the excessive emission of carbon-dioxide into our atmosphere. The ice-bergs are melting and our planet is slowly going under sea due to the rising sea level. We should consider other industrial options that does not destroy our planet but sustain it. We must start now or we go down!

By: Jonathan Koh
Papua New Guinea

digital gallery

Arise Now

This video is a cry to depict the dark and sad state of our environment because of climate change and also because of the lack of action on it.it calls on us all to recognize that we have caused to this problem and there is a need for us to arise now.

By Sahil Chandra

Fiji

Nature, Water and Human Rights

For me as a young filmmaker here in the Solomon islands, I love my passion as filmmaker and photographer, I use my passion as a filmmaker to create stories and film them about issues and global climate change also advocate issues in my country .what inspired me to be creative in making this film ,I wanted to tell stories and film then to make change in my country ,as a freelance filmmaker I always wanted to be a change maker by using my passion and creative skill of filmmaker to make change in my country and in my village.

The story and video I created is about how important is water ,and how people connected to their land river and nature ,and some challenges they have face in their villager .and also contributing by climate change and affecting Human rights .There woman and children are also affected by the climate change and their rights.

By: Junior Patrick Kauha Makau

Solomon Islands

Act Now: Youth Against Climate Change

Act Now: Youth Against Climate ChangeElwais Golbuu

00:00 / 02:16

Due to my inability to sing, I tried to piece together dialogue and speech audio from assorted videos on YouTube in order to tell the message that would fit with the theme. I decided on having two "parts" of the song: one part tells of the severe impacts brought by climate change, and the other part tells about how youth have the power to fight against it. When creating the song, I tried to make it somewhat resemble that of a trailer's audio, and to do that, I prioritized the arrangement of the dialogue and speaking first, then made the actual music follow along. I went back and forth between many different ideas, unsure of how to proceed due to the atypical structure of the song. Though eventually, I managed to have a clear layout of the spoken words and a rough idea of how the music would play out. From there, I added a bit more elements, then mixed the song (adding effects to make sure the sounds of the music and the spoken audio didn't fight each other, making sure the volume of the song was mostly consistent, etc). After that, I got the opinions of my family members, made the necessary edits to the song, then started to fill the form while exporting the file! And that brings me here now.

By: Elwais Golbuu

Palau