{"id":160225,"date":"2025-06-05T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160225\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:43:13","slug":"striking-images-showing-climate-change-aim-to-inspire-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160225\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking images showing climate change aim to \u2018inspire action\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Editor\u2019s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex\u2019s Perpetual Planet Initiative<\/a> has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Tree-covered mountains rise behind a pile of trash, children run through the orange haze of a dust storm, and a billboard standing on parched earth indicates where the seashore used to be before desertification took hold. These striking images, exhibited as part of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit<\/a>, show the devastating effects of climate change.\n <\/p>\n

\n The summit, held at the University of Oxford in the UK and supported by UN Human Rights (OHCHR), aims to reframe climate change as a human rights crisis and spotlight climate solutions. It works with everyone from policymakers to artists to get the message across.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPhotographers document the human rights impacts of climate change, helping to inform the public and hold governments and businesses accountable,\u201d said Volker T\u00fcrk, UN High Commissioner for the OHCHR, via email. \u201cThe Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit shows the power of collective action \u2014 uniting storytellers, scientists, indigenous leaders, and others to advance climate solutions rooted in human rights.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Coinciding with World Environment Day<\/a> on June 5, the exhibition \u2014 titled \u201cPhotography 4 Humanity: A Lens on Climate Justice\u201d \u2014 features the work of 31 photographers from across the globe, all documenting the effects of global warming and environmental pollution on their own communities.\n <\/p>\n

\n Climate change disproportionately affects vulnerable populations around the world. Despite emitting far fewer greenhouse gases<\/a>, low-income nations are suffering the most from extreme weather events and have fewer resources to adapt or recover.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Photographs at the exhibition show the effects of desertification, flooding and plastic pollution. A black and white image shows the ruins of a house in West Bengal, India, sloping towards the Ganges River, with the owner sitting alongside. Riverbank erosion is degrading the environment and displacing communities<\/a> in the area. Photographer Masood Sarwer said in a press release that the photo depicts the \u201cslow violence\u201d of climate change: \u201cThese are not sudden disasters, but slow-moving, relentless ones \u2014 shaping a new category of environmental refugees.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Another photo, taken by Aung Chan Thar, shows children fishing for trash in Inle Lake, Myanmar. The lake was once a pristine natural wonder but now faces the growing threat of plastic pollution. \u201cThis image of children cleaning the water symbolizes the importance of education and collective action in preserving our environment for a sustainable future,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Organizers hope that the exhibition will help to humanize the climate crisis. \u201cOur mission is to inspire new perspectives through photography,\u201d said Pauline Benthede, global vice president of artistic direction and exhibitions at Fotografiska, the museum <\/strong>of photography, art and culture that is curating the exhibition at the summit. \u201cIt draws attention to the human rights issue at the heart of global warming, which affects both the world\u2019s landscapes and the people that live within them.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPhotography is the most influential and inclusive art form of our times and has the power to foster understanding and inspire action,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114630820621706710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}