According to the Climate Vulnerability Index, India ranks seventh among the countries vulnerable to climate change and 80 percent of India’s population lives under constant risk of a climate disaster. While the factors exacerbating climate change are global in nature, their impact on communities is very rooted in local realities. The resultant challenges have profound implications for our ecosystems, economies and social fabric.
Bengaluru, as any other city, is a complex system composed of infrastructure such as housing, water, energy, public health, transport and more. Each of these systems is integral to a well functioning city, but it is their interconnectedness that determines livability in the city. The increasing frequency and intensity of climate disasters also indicates how these different city systems cannot be viewed in isolation and that their interlinkages need to be taken into account, to inform climate resilience and adaptation strategies. Building on this understanding as well as its learnings from the 2023 Retreat on Urban climate resilience, the Bengaluru Sustainability Forum (BSF), curates and hosts 'Climate Charche' as a series of engagements on the interlinkages between different aspects of climate change and city systems. These engagements for dialogue, deliberation and learning are facilitated across different audience groups in the city, with an aim to exchange knowledge, understand how city level plans can lend themselves to strengthen climate adaptation, resilience and climate justice. A key programme element of the Climate Charche series is a film festival, being held in collaboration with the Kriti Film Club.
EcoReels - The Climate Charche edition is being organised as a public event at four different venues in Bengaluru, from 10th to 13th January 2025 (0 am to 4 pm). This will allow for Bengaluru citizens to attend any day that is convenient to them by location too. The objective of the festival is to use films to communicate different experiences and perspectives related to climate change, sustainability and the environment and spark thoughts and actions with diverse audiences in the city. It seeks to engage students, practitioners, researchers, artists, activists, communities directly impacted by climate change, and all citizens of Bengaluru to collectively watch and inreract with attending filmmakers, researchers and practitioners on related issues of climate change and sustainable development. We hope that the festival will foster critical awareness and inspire collective action towards sustainable solutions.
Festival Schedule (please click on the date for film details)
Friday, January 10 || Mount Carmel College, Vasanth Nagar ||
Saturday, January 11 || JAIN (Deemed-to-be-University ||
Sunday, January 12 || Gandhi Bhavan, Kumara Krupa Road ||
Monday, January 13 || CHRIST (Deemed-to-be-University) ||
OPEN FOR ALL! Register here or at venue
About the Organisers and Collaborators
to foster innovative solutions and a holistic understanding of sustainability issues in the city. BSF does this via a diverse range of engagements like retreats, workshops, panel discussions, webinars, film festivals, exhibitions, podcasts and a small grants programme.
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