The longer human activities are changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the more visible, wider, and longer lasting the scope of environmental impacts may be. Your challenge is to tell a visual story about the impacts of the pandemic using Earth observation data and other complementary information.
Just as the Renaissance was a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, the Green Renaissance aims to be a period of transition as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and into a sustainable future for humanity on earth. We intend to ignite a vision of transformation around the impacts of the pandemic while explaining how to use earth observation data with practical, credible, and thought-provoking infographics for the accurate understanding of the Earth Observing Dashboard so that we preserve the lessons of the outbreak for posterity.
Why is it important?
The importance of taking action on climate change has been expressed for almost 50 years, however, society looks indifferent in taking real action that allows reducing the catastrophic effect that is seen to come. We are the first generation that has a clear conception of the value of nature but we do not consider that we could be the last generation to have the opportunity to act to avoid irreparable damage[3].
After experiencing as young people for more than a year the uncertainty that the pandemic brought us, it made us reflect on logical responses to an unprecedented global crisis. This makes us wonder, what will the future look like? Have we adapted to living with this virus? Will science allow us to reverse the chaos we have?
We understand that historically pandemics have occurred at different times in highly populated areas, drastically affecting the human species, but does this have any relation to natural phenomena that have been altered by the impact of man? Could this pandemic be a natural control mechanism to guarantee the survival of the planet? What are we not seeing that could be more critical than a pandemic? Faced with the search for answers, science shows us with data, clarity of how our great home is crumbling at an accelerated rate, and we still do not have the measures and actions that allow us to urgently respond to the SOS call of nature.
What does it do?
The main object of this project is to share the Earth Observing Dashboard tool and data with the global community, through video
and infographics, making it clear that an improvement is not possible without constant monitoring. We seek to create a message of impact, which allows us to communicate and generate awareness in people but above all to question whether the rhythm of life that we lead as human beings will allow us to preserve life on the planet in the coming years.
As Global Proposal:
We must try to focus a real collective effort towards the objectives of climate change.
In June 2021 Legal experts defined and put forward a new proposed category of international crime - ‘ecocide.’ If taken up by Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC), it would become the fifth category of offenses to be prosecuted under the court [7]. But how can we effectively achieve an ecological conscience?Why not consider legislating the way the message is conveyed by calling for immediate action to curb climate change? If only we could consider proposing that all public entertainment content seeks to give a careful approach to the environment, perhaps we could be able to educate and raise awareness of the next generations. What would happen if the authorities required that all commercials, Netflix movies, Amazon prime series, social networks, children's cartoons, etc. constantly have the warning message about climate change and a call to immediate action? At least perhaps through neuro-linguistic programming, and good storytelling in entertainment content, a significant awareness of the habits that we can seriously execute as citizens can be achieved immediately.
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What inspired your team to choose this challenge?
What inspired us to choose this challenge was the urgency to invites the audience to raise awareness with a clear and direct message of the landscape we are heading for if we do not take action towards a green renaissance.
What was your approach to developing this project?
Covid 19 has given us a clear manifestation of our broken relationship with nature. Analyzing global behavior during the pandemic, through the data obtained and provided by space agencies, gives us clarity of the impact that we generate as human beings on our planet and makes us question the availability of resources that guarantee a healthy life and human survival in the next 30 years. [8]
What problems and achievements did your team have?
Though there is no single recipe to develop a project in a better way, it’s about how to maximize the ingredients in order to create hundreds of recipes that are customized and authentic, in our case the ingredients are the ingenuity of a UX / UI designer, the insight of a Data Analyst, the creativity of an animator and the wit of a transmedia producer, that provide long-term continuity and impact.
As a team, we step up each other's game when we know our strengths so we divide the tasks and can add value to the healthier whole. We aim to see beyond the obvious and look to create a wide-reaching impact that extends into the community.
Software & Tools:
We explored the environmental and economic indicators based on remote sensing data from ESA, JAXA, and NASA, specifically how social distancing measures and regional shelter-in-place guidelines have affected Earth’s air, land, and water; considered all the available data in the dashboard combines the resources, technical knowledge and expertise of the three partner agencies to strengthen our global understanding of the environmental and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic which we are using to showcase the contrast before and after the pandemic.
Finally, we investigated individual countries and regions across the world to see how the indicators in each specific location have changed over time.
Our initiative is to incorporate a section into the Earth Observing Dashboard of videos, organized by topic ( Air quality, water quality, economic impact, agricultural impact, greenhouse gas, interconnected Earth system impact, social impact) that show the correlation of the information on the counted board in an easy-to-understand way, showing how the impact of the planet is according to the behavior of the human being in various activities.
[1] Earth Observing Dashboard (eodashboard.org)
[3] lpr20_full_report.pdf (panda.org)
[4] ESA - Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home
[5] Earth Observing Dashboard (eodashboard.org)
[6] ESA - Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels
[7] How new laws could help combat the planetary crisis (unep.org)
[8] Historia y concepto del antropoceno | WWF
#Green Renaissance, # NatureSOS, #Storytelling , #Interconnected-earth-system-impact, #Earthobservations.
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.
