Screening of Blue Carbon & Roundtable with #YAS25 Laureates
The event will begin with a screening of Blue Carbon, followed by a panel discussion with #YAS25 Laureates Rena Kawasaki, Dev Karan, and Marina El Khawand. The discussion will be moderated by Ioana Popp, Managing Director of the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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Filmed across the USA, Senegal, Vietnam, France, Colombia and Brazil, Blue Carbon explores the ocean’s great potential to absorb far more carbon from the atmosphere than tropical rainforests. This so-called "blue carbon" is found in salt-marshes, sea-grasses and mangroves, and is attracting growing interest from big corporations seeking to offset their emissions through carbon credit schemes.
Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated music producer, DJ and marine toxicologist, Jayda Guy, and featuring Seu Jorge, this documentary brings together music and science to reveal why listening to nature, and to each other, is key for averting climate catastrophe.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with 2025 Young Activists Summit Laureates:
- Rena Kawasaki (19, Japan) collaborates with Tokyo’s government on the Tokyo Bay Project, working to create a more sustainable city.
- Dev Karan (17, India) has developed low-cost IoT sensors and a mobile app to help restore ponds.
- Marina El Khawand (24, Lebanon) transforms expired medicines, often discarded in landfills and polluting the environment, into sustainable building materials.
The screening is organised in partnership with FIFDH Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute, with support from Ville de Genève and InTent.