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Photo competition has started – "Climate Change in Lens”
2008-11-14
Photo competition has started – "Climate Change in Lens”
Today an ecological competition has started: “Climate Change in Lens”, under a patronage of Prof. Maciej Nowicki, Minister of Environment. Participants can apply for the competition at the website: klimat2008.blog.pl until 10 December 2008. The competition is organized in reference to the UN Conference – COP 14 – coordinated by the Ministry of Environment in Poland.
The Competition “Climate Change in Lens” is directed mainly to all young net surfers who are interested in ecology. The results of the survey carried out by the Ministry of Environment show that mostly twenty- and thirty-year-old people are ecologic conscious. The competition gives them an opportunity to express their perception of climate change and its influence on environment and society.
Pictures for the competition can be submitted in three categories:
• Nature – pictures in this category should present the influence of humans activities on the nature.
• Technology – pictures in this category should present environmentally friendly technologies, their influence on the nature.
• People – this is the category, where pictures should present human being as part of the ecosystem, those who are responsible for the climate change and their actions in order to reduce the effects.
Panel of judges includes: Ireneusz Graff – photographer, long-term President of the Mazowiecki Association of the Nature Photographers, Malgorzata Snarska – Head of the COP 14 Team and Agata Gozdzik – Commissioner of the Exhibition “Technologies for Climate Protection”.
Viewers of the fotoblog website will choose their favorite picture and honor The Public Award.
More detailed information related to the competition, regulations and schedule are available on the website: Klimat2008.blog.pl. The pictures can be sent until 10 December 2008, the results will be available on the 12 December 2008.
Photo Competition “Climate Change in Lens” is one of the elements in a series of events in the framework of preparations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 14, that will take place in Poznan, from 1 till 12 December 2008. This will be the first time that the biggest and most important climate change summit will be held in Poland. For the Conference in Poznan few thousand of guests will arrive, including 190 governmental delegations with Ministers of Environment or Climate Change, international, ecological, business and research institutions, non-governmental organizations and media. Prof. Maciej Nowicki, the Minister of Environment will be the President of COP 14.
Today an ecological competition has started: “Climate Change in Lens”, under a patronage of Prof. Maciej Nowicki, Minister of Environment. Participants can apply for the competition at the website: klimat2008.blog.pl until 10 December 2008. The competition is organized in reference to the UN Conference – COP 14 – coordinated by the Ministry of Environment in Poland.
The Competition “Climate Change in Lens” is directed mainly to all young net surfers who are interested in ecology. The results of the survey carried out by the Ministry of Environment show that mostly twenty- and thirty-year-old people are ecologic conscious. The competition gives them an opportunity to express their perception of climate change and its influence on environment and society.
Pictures for the competition can be submitted in three categories:
• Nature – pictures in this category should present the influence of humans activities on the nature.
• Technology – pictures in this category should present environmentally friendly technologies, their influence on the nature.
• People – this is the category, where pictures should present human being as part of the ecosystem, those who are responsible for the climate change and their actions in order to reduce the effects.
Panel of judges includes: Ireneusz Graff – photographer, long-term President of the Mazowiecki Association of the Nature Photographers, Malgorzata Snarska – Head of the COP 14 Team and Agata Gozdzik – Commissioner of the Exhibition “Technologies for Climate Protection”.
Viewers of the fotoblog website will choose their favorite picture and honor The Public Award.
More detailed information related to the competition, regulations and schedule are available on the website: Klimat2008.blog.pl. The pictures can be sent until 10 December 2008, the results will be available on the 12 December 2008.
Photo Competition “Climate Change in Lens” is one of the elements in a series of events in the framework of preparations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 14, that will take place in Poznan, from 1 till 12 December 2008. This will be the first time that the biggest and most important climate change summit will be held in Poland. For the Conference in Poznan few thousand of guests will arrive, including 190 governmental delegations with Ministers of Environment or Climate Change, international, ecological, business and research institutions, non-governmental organizations and media. Prof. Maciej Nowicki, the Minister of Environment will be the President of COP 14.
