Repurposed shipping containers, with large screens and high-quality audio, stationed in 25 locations across the globe now allow people in distant parts of the world to have eye-to-eye, life-size conversations as if they were in the same room.
Through the “Global We for Climate Action”, the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live, supported by the IKEA Foundation, seeks to broaden the climate conversation by engaging people who are left out of the conversation and feel little agency in shaping the future of the world – especially younger generations, people disproportionately affected by climate change, and people in conflict-ridden societies. The initiative also aims to help establish channels to bring these perspectives to leaders who have the power and means to accelerate the decisions and actions to protect our planet.
“We also need to listen to young people, indigenous people – those on the frontline of the climate crisis,” said Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Action when participating in a conversation in one of the portals connecting New York City, Kigali and Mexico City. “We need to hold each other accountable, but more importantly we need to work together as a global community,” he said, adding that “we need to be accountable to the people that I heard in that portal, who are really on the frontline of the climate crisis.”
The Museum for the United Nations – UN Live is a borderless, unconventional museum for the people and for the world. Currently present in 25 locations across the globe, UN Live is not part of the United Nations but is connecting people to the values and work of the United Nations.
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