Film still of Rayen, one of the protagonists of Dear Future Children.

🎬 ✊🏾 Fighting for a better future. Director Franz Böhm travelled to Uganda, Chile and Hong Kong to follow three young activists in their battles for the environment, against inequality and for democracy. Dear Future Children, he tells us, is about a generation that wants a seat at the table.

🗑️ 🍎 The food we throw away. The UN estimates that 17 per cent of all food available to consumers ended up in the waste bin of households, retailers and other food services in 2019. That’s enough to fill 23 million fully-loaded 40-tonne trucks.

🐳 🚢 Under the sea. The ocean is home to a wide variety of ecosystems that are under threat by human activity. This interactive piece explores its different habitats from the surface to the deepest zone and offers some solutions to prevent further damage.

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‘Balance between Urban and Nature’. Eighteen-year-old Ka Yi Siu from Hong Kong has won this year’s World Wildlife Day International Youth Art Contest. The young artist’s bright and colorful piece was selected among some 600 entries from 50 different countries. The contest, organised by IFAW, CITES and UNDP, aimed to highlight this year the important role of forest ecosystems.

🎧 How light is affecting Arctic species. With the far North warming up two to three times faster than the rest of the world, its sea ice is melting quickly. This means more light can reach the depths of the Arctic sea. Two scientists studying how climate change is affecting the region’s species are taking a look at the impact of increased light.

📌 6 March | We Are Watching : Les Yeux du monde sur l’action climatique. A flag the size of a 10-story building, showing a monumental eye made up of thousands of portraits and messages from around the world, will be hung in Plainpalais, before continuing its journey to other climate-related events.

📌 11 March | High-Level Dialogue on Plastic Governance. The Geneva Beat Plastic Pollution Dialogues close their first round of discussions on how to tackle the plastic problem with this session aiming to explore the way forward to the second part of the UN Environment Assembly.