A Taiwanese award-winning SME “O’right” funded an expedition, sending a film crew to Greenland to document the impact of climate change, in a film called ‘’Melting Greenland”, and to get insights from activists, government officials and environmental experts.
To address urgent climate change issues, O’right’s general manager, Yvonne Tsai, and chairman of O’right Thailand and former chairman of the Joint Foreign Chamber of Commerce, Stanley Kang, stressed that the exigent impacts. If glaciers in Greenland continue to melt, sea levels would rise by 7.4 meters and many metropolises around the world will become inundated.
Carbon footprint is the key
Supported by the World Climate Foundation (WCF), the RE100 Climate Group and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the Melting Greenland team received US$1m from O’right and shot footage of extraordinary scenes of ice dynamics. The team also garnered important advice from experts on reducing carbon emissions immediately.
In this documentary, experts raise their concerns over glaciers in Greenland. The key factor in stopping them melting is reducing carbon emissions, as senior scientist at the Greenland Climate Research Centre, Dr. Thomas Juul-Pederson explained, adding that another solution is to stop using fossil fuels and migrating to renewable energy.
Stop the clock for the next generation
According to Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) experts, over 10,000 tons of melting ice sheet flow into the ocean every second, as glaciers retreat up to 40 meters each day. This irreversible phenomenon in Greenland has changed how local people live, as extreme weather conditions cause land subsidence, road destruction and irregular hunting seasons.
Advocates stress that climate change links to children’s right to live in good conditions on this planet. ‘’We want to see more education about climate change and more connection between different countries. Climate change is part of children’s rights. Every child has the right to live in good conditions,’’ the advocate in Greenland for UNICEF, Maya-Natuk Rohmann Fleischer, said.
Education on climate change in schools
Due to its focus on climate change, UNGA and COP 27 have screened this documentary to convey the message.
In Taiwan, schools have used this documentary as educational material for students. ‘’More than 345 schools and two thousand companies have cooperated with us to show this documentary to their students and employees. A Taiwanese airline also shows this documentary to its passengers. In the future, we also aim to expand the influence of the ‘’Melting Greenland’’ film in Thailand,’’ added Stanley Kang.
By Franc Han Shih, ThaiPBS World
