[Campaign to visualize the collaboration to solve climate change] Original film featuring a dialogue between media representatives and companies/experts/practitioners has been released!

As the first step of a campaign to visualize stakeholders seeking collaboration on climate change solutions and climate change coverage, we have produced an original Media is Hope film. We have created a dialogue between media representatives x companies/experts/practitioners/viewers, so please take a look!　
[ Press Release ]

 

MEDIA IS HOPE Inc. Presents “Who is Hope? ~A Bridge to the Future~”

The speakers spoke about the challenges, signs of change, and prospects for solving climate change issues from their respective perspectives. The film also delves deeply into the personal thoughts of the leaders in their respective fields toward climate change and society, making it a valuable video that can only be viewed here.

[Speakers]
・NHK Enterprises Executive Producer Kyoko Gendatsu × Japan Climate Leaders Partnership Co-Chair Kaori Miyake

・Kodansha FRaUweb Editor-in-Chief Mayumi Shinmachi × University of Tokyo Future Vision Research Center Emori Masata

・TV Asahi Announcer Yutaka Yamaguchi × Chiba Citizen Energy CEO Mitsuhiro Higashi

・MEDIA IS HOPE Inc. Co-Lead/Director Yoshizo Nishida and Yuka Natori

[Planning/Provided] MEDIA IS HOPE Inc.  

[Production/Direction] MEW Inc.

*This video was produced with funding from the Global Environment Fund, an independent administrative institution run by the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan, in fiscal 2023.

[Main Contents]
● Part 1 (26 min.): Changes over the past few years, new trends and signs of change
https://youtu.be/VJ0y455-l7k

● Part 2 (23 min.): What motivated you to start this project, what is important to you, and your hopes for the future
https://youtu.be/heHT4cM-yqQ

*Highlights of the prior release: original film with thoughts from MEDIA IS HOPE Inc.
https://youtu.be/bPsCX_FndTU

*Teaser videos for each performer (less than 60 seconds each): short summary
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVGGKIxQ7itJ1YjdM_Azu_OXWmD3PMTT6

MEDIA IS HOPE Inc. created this video to visualize cooperation and hope for solving climate change. Our goal is to dispel public opinion that tends to lean negative, and to create new hope through climate change measures. It will be a place where everyone can look back and serve as a starting point for building a “future-oriented society.” We believe that this video will be “hope itself for new challenges and solutions.” We hope to create positive momentum and motivation, so please watch and share!

 

MEDIA IS HOPE Inc.:

In order to build a society that can solve climate change, we believe that it is necessary to make knowledge about climate change a common understanding in Japan and encourage behavioral change. This organization provides various support to strengthen climate change reporting. We will be a bridge that builds a co-creative relationship between media, citizens, companies and all other stakeholders in order to fundamentally solve climate change.

<Main Activities>Media coverage and the latest articles are listed in the NEWS

・June 2022
Crowdfunding [Making the climate crisis a common understanding in Japan. MEDIA IS HOPE’s challenge!] Achieved a total of 3,929,000 yen

・October 2022
Hosted a press conference to express solidarity and support for the “1.5℃ Promise Campaign“. Media representatives from various affiliations gathered together

・May 2023
Media collaboration project for climate change reporting campaign during the G7 period

①In-depth article on renewable energy
②Entertainment x climate change content
③Roundtable discussion with climate change reporters from five newspapers

・August 2023
Nishida becomes a planning committee member of the Japan Association of Environmental Journalists

・August 2023
Co-host a media seminar with D-JEDI on “Climate Change Crisis and Reporting” – The role of the media in raising public opinion

・September 2023: Hosting “Let’s Make It Together! Renewable Energy Day!” supported by the Ministry of the Environment
TV Asahi SDGs Special: Renewable Energy Revolution! Public viewing of Japan’s challenge

・September 2023
Cooperated with coverage for the NHK six-station collaborative program “1.5℃ Promise: Let’s act now to stop the temperature rise”

Cooperated with coverage for the Japan Youth Climate Conference 2023 to convey the voices of young people to the media and society, and contributed to each company’s reporting

・October 2023 
Start partnership with Covering Climate Now (world’s largest climate change media collaboration platform)

・December 2023
Participate in COP28 in Dubai. Provide interviews to media abroad and support Japanese media in writing articles.

・January 2024
“Climate Change Media Symposium” is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Media professionals and experts will be invited to discuss future climate change reporting and the state of the media.

 

On September 24, 2023, “Let’s Make It Together! Renewable Energy Day!” will be held as a “co-creation event” to solve climate change issues, bringing together government agencies such as the Ministry of the Environment and Tokyo Metropolitan Government, collaboration platforms such as companies aiming for 100% renewable energy, youth and citizens, experts and practitioners, and media professionals. At the venue, a public viewing of the special renewable energy program, which was supported by Media is Hope, was held to support the program’s production team (it was also turned into a climate change reporting support campaign). In addition, we are currently building a system to support and encourage the media, such as by holding the “Media is Hope AWARD” to honor the achievements of media and journalists who contribute to solving social issues such as climate change and SDGs. (Report video with subtitles)