Milan 2021 Youth Climate Action Celebration #DigitalArt4Climate #GloCha #All4Climate

#DigitalArt4Climate Milan 2021 Youth Climate Action Celebration

Organizer:

In cooperation with

• UN Habitat Youth programme  https://www.unhabitatyouth.org/  
• Unique Network https://unique.network/
• Social Alpha Foundation https://www.socialalphafoundation.org/
• HubZine Italy
• MEET Digital Culture Center Milan / Fondacione Cariplo
• FIABCI Italia – IL PUNTO Real Estate Advisor srl – Campagnoli & Calvi Studio Legale – Lex CC

Event Aims

• Inspiring public support for bold and effective climate action with youth focused narratives, inspiring artwork (DigitalArt4Climate and its Art Competition (submission deadline 8 Oct 2021)), music and celebrities’ engagement
• Informing/Educating the audience about United Nations led global efforts to master the climate crisis (UNFCCC process, Paris Agreement, Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) program, UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow/UK in November 2021)
• Mobilizing financial resources for systemic solutions to youth focused climate action empowerment
• Movement building and individual (youth) climate action empowerment with social and digital innovation & blockchain based climate action digital collectibles/NFTs platform and app

Day 1: 27th of September 3 – 6 PM CEST

Venue: Viale dell’Innovazione, 2, 20126 Milano

• youth climate action innovation panel
• NFTs for Climate – Climate action as a digital badges collection game panel
• Milan 2021 DigitalArt4Climate event badge (NFT) airdrop (=free distribution to event participants)
• networking meeting with local digital art & climate action leaders

Day 2: 28 September 2021 3 – 5 PM CEST

Venue: MEET Digital Culture Center Milan & virtual participation through various platforms including Youtube and Facebook

• Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel I – Visual Arts & Fashion
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel II – Music
• Event NFT airdrop

Background:

COP26, ACE, ACE_AT, IAAI & ECOS:  https://unfccc.int/news/action-for-climate-empowerment-new-drive-for-society-wide-climate-action

Why Milan?: Italian COP26 co-presidency Pre-COP youth event in Milan and All4Climate campaign context

DigitalArt4Climate: resource mobilization innovation for ACE, spin-off initiative of ACE_AT project – rooted also in the Digital Innovation Community in the context of the UNFCCC process – and DA4C beneficiaries.

With the event we are building a new narrative of hope and collaboration in light of the climate crisis. The event title provides a thematic framework: The Storm, the Haven and the Angel (themes that are also guiding the DigitalArt4Climate art competition). The Storm: uncertainties and fears in a rapidly changing world. The Haven: people/communities joining hands towards mastering the climate crisis and The Angel: the individual global citizen as the centre of a value and cultural shift towards empathy, solidarity, who creates with his/her individual climate action legacy (documented/certified with digital badges) the foundation for a good life for all.

Detailed Agenda:

Agenda Day 1 – Monday, 27th of September 3 – 6 PM CEST

link to live broadcast: https://youtu.be/oHtlBDxjnAM

Venue: Viale dell’Innovazione, 2, 20126 Milano on-site participation capacity of the venue is limited because of COVID, please write an email to polzer@glocha.info if you would like attend in person

• Welcome (host: Antonio Campagnoli, moderators) (5 minutes)
• Youth climate action innovation panel
  • Young climate activist, participant of the Milan Pre-COP youth event
  • Timothy Damon, youth climate action movement leader & Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders Community/ECOS
  • John Crowley – former director of the UNESCO Management Social Transformations Programme
  • Alexandre Caldas (UN Environment) & Doug Ragan (UN Habitat)
  • Miroslav Polzer (IAAI GloCha)
• (Clean) NFTs for Climate – Climate action as a digital badges collection game panel
  • Digital Innovation keynote: Mario Taddei, academic, science communication expert, digital artist. Reinventing art, markets and global cooperation with NFTs/digital collectibles
  • Bruno Škvorc, Web3 Foundation – a brief general introduction to Web 3.0, Proof-of-Stake on Polkadot/Kusama (Clean NFTs), RMRK/Kanaria, as example of NFTs as enablers of innovation in the domains of art, governance, business, .., explanation regarding the handling of our DigitalArt4Climate Milan2021 event NFT drop
  • Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network, a NFT chain for Kusama and Polkadot, Essential Art Tools
  • Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha – DigitalArt4Climate overview & NFTs for GloCha ACE support ecosystem & COP26 plans
  • Alexandre Gellert Paris, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Unit, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat – UNFCCC (to be confirmed)
• DigitalArt4Climate Milan 2021 event badge (NFT) airdrop (= free distribution to event participants)

• Conversation with the artists who created the DigitalArt4Climate Global Angel: Theofilos Mantzoros (Greece) and Roger Haus (Switzerland)
• Networking meeting with local and international digital art & climate action leaders

            Agenda Day 2:  28 September 2021 3 – 5 PM CEST        

link to live broadcast: https://youtu.be/BLmEyiS0fhQ

Venue: MEET Digital Culture Center Milan , https://goo.gl/maps/SdBodiqCdwHoMpn27

on-site participation capacity of the venue is limited because of COVID, please write an email to polzer@glocha.info if you would like attend in person

• Introduction: videos & images from Pre-COP Youth event & from DA4C Day 1 event  (5 min)
• Presentation of the DigitalArt4Climate initiative (lead presenters: Anna Dart, ExquisiteWorkers & Irina Karagyaur, Unique Network & partners’ statements, potentially also DA4C Designathon winning team voice) (15 minutes)
• Creative Industries for Climate Panel I – Visual Arts & Fashion (45 minutes)

Panel moderator: Liliana Carrillo, UNESCO Creative cities network, Social Digital Innovation Expert

Digital Art keynote: Refik Anadol,: Digital art/artists and their potentials for doing good

Panelists:

• Maria Grazia Mattei, President and CEO of the MEET Digital Culture Center Milan
  • Olga Chernysheva, Chief Sustainability Officer, DRESSX – digital fashion
  • Katherine Foster, Social Alpha Foundation & Open Earth Foundation & DigitalArt4Climate partner
  • Camilla Delpero, CEO of CD Arts Consulting

·         Creative Industries for Climate Panel II – Music (20 minutes)

• Ricky Kej, Grammy award winning musician, UN goodwill ambassador and GloCha partner (Earth Music Awards)
  • Sol Moran Broza:  Be.Together For The Amazon: raising awareness, movement building and resource mobilization with music & outline of a collaboration with DigitalArt4Climate on music NFT collection
  • MusicforSDGs https://www.facebook.com/MusicforSDGs/ 
  • et al.
• DA4C Milan 2021 event badge airdrop

About the Action for Climate Empowerment Innovation Project ACE_AT:

Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote work under Article 6 of the Convention (1992) and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement (2015). The over-arching goal of ACE is to empower all members of society to engage in climate action, through education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation on these issues. (source: https://unfccc.int/topics/education-youth/the-big-picture/what-is-action-for-climate-empowerment)

The Project ACE_AT is a collaborative global effort towards strengthening Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) within and beyond the UNFCCC process. The goal is to empower all members of society to engage in Climate Action and to change the perception on ACE.

The main task of the non-party stakeholder partners of ACE_AT IAAI & ECOS is to develop the plan for a self-sustaining ACE non-Party stakeholders support structure/office (potentially in the institutional setting of a quasi-international Organization as offered by Austrian legal system: https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/european-foreign-policy/international-organisations-in-austria/ngos-and-quasi-international-organizations/) with a corresponding business plan, resource mobilization innovation and digital tools and a digital global ACE platform (more information: https://action4climate.support/2021/03/29/ace_at-rethinking-and-reorganizing-action-for-climate-empowerment-ace/)

About DigitalArt4Climate: DigitalArt4Climate is a multi-stakeholder partnership initiative which uses blockchain technology to turn art into digital assets or NFTs, which can be collected and traded, thus opening up a socio-technological innovation space which helps to unlock extraordinary potential for resource mobilization and climate empowerment, which is being used to enable realization of youth focused ACE programs of IAAI GloCha and UN Habitat.  https://digitalart4climate.space/



References (related events and initiatives organized by IAAI GloCha in the past):

• DigitalArt4Climate Art Competition Launch on International Youth Day (12 August) 2021, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k18/k18n5bpoob
• DigitalArt4Climate virtual exhibit in the context of the Un High Level Political Forum 2021, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSMGbkgEP3NyCgiBVXdhdts6LhPzaP1E_KOE3sCUCoKe86iU-V4w5TySkyB5Qfvw08hhFp3cD1t1PxZ/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000
• Climate Celebrations 22nd of September 2019, Ethical Culture Institute, New York City (in the context of the UN Secretary General Climate Summit) https://www.facebook.com/100001382161861/videos/pcb.2513554358700612/2513542418701806
• COP21 Global Challenges Youth Music Contest (in collaboration with UNESCO and UN Climate Change secretariat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4pObZWg5A
• Global Climate Action Summit Climate Consciousness Concert Youth Creating Global Change, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (organized in the context of the California Global Climate Action Summit) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07aAmDA8jk3h-IzDPvXDDcbA5cb06VpO
• Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest (organized in the context of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro 2012 https://www.academia.edu/2401920/The_Rio_20_Global_Youth_Music_Contest_Journey_Towards_The_Future_We_Want_Photo_documentary_presented_in_the_context_of_International_Day_of_Youth_12_August_2012

Contact:         

Miroslav Polzer, polzer@glocha.info, https://digitalart4climate.space/