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12:16
Antarctic Ocean Alliance - Rt Hon John Gummer
Opening words by Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben Chairman of the environmental consultancy Sancroft International and Veolia Water, former Secretary of State for Environment
02:52
Why Meaningful Progress Depends on Activists - Spotlight on Civil Society
The first ripples of change often begin with civil society. Over time NGOs have used their speed, activism and collaborative approaches to influence actors within the UN process, as well as private sector players.
02:43
Landscape conservation in Belize
Lisel Alamilla, Belize's newly appointed Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Sustainable Development and formerly Executive Director of the Ya'axche Conservation Trust, is one of seven winners of this year's Whitley Fund for Nature Awards. Lisel wins a Whitley Award for her work to unite local stakeholders to protect Belize's species rich Maya Golden Landscape. The video narrated by Sir David Attenborough, describes her work.
03:53
Our global governance crisis
The onus falls on government to give us the systems, incentives and regulatory frameworks to enable sustainable development. We hope to see a sense of shared vision and objectives by governments at Rio+20, but historically, governments have shown a lack of courage.
02:37
Bat conservation in Costa Rica
Bernal wins a Whitley Award for his work to develop a coordinated strategy to conserve bats in Central America. The video narrated by Sir David Attenborough, describes his work.
02:43
Amphibian conservation in Guatemala
Carlos Vasquez Almazan, an amphibian expert from Guatemala, is one of seven winners of this year's Whitley Fund for Nature Awards. Carlos wins a Whitley Award for his work to create Guatemala's first network of protected areas for endangered amphibians. The video narrated by Sir David Attenborough, describes his work.
00:30
WWF's Earth Book 2012 - Animals
The threats facing the natural world can be shocking and our impact on the planet is growing every year. But our world is brilliant and solutions exist that can help to protect our living planet. These short videos offer a glimpse into some of the challenges and solutions highlighted by WWF's Living Planet Report 2012.
01:39
One planet
The visuals for the One Planet film were created by researching the NASA and ESA archives for photographs where mankind's impact was clearly visible from space. These included deforestation and forest fires, water usage, agriculture, smog, coastal pollution and the impacts of climate change on glaciers and polar ice.
02:41
Dolphin conservation in Indonesia
Budiono wins a Whitley Award for his work to establish community-supported protected areas to conserve Indonesia's last population of freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins
04:48
Coffee growers combat climate change
Climate change has had a devastating impact on coffee farmers in Peru with torrential rain and flooding destroying their crops. Cafedirect's ground breaking reforestation project is helping to mitigate these problems and create an innovative sustainable financing solution.
04:03
International Governance - how the UN summit process has evolved
Since the 1992 UN Summit, the philosophies of business, NGOs and governments have evolved - often at the expense of sustainable development goals. What has been constant is the desire to motivate people to act.
02:56
Bat Conservation in Mexico and Latin America
Rodrigo Medellin, a leading bat expert from Mexico, is the first winner of the new Whitley Fund for Nature Gold Award for his on-going work to study, raise awareness and highlight the importance of Latin America's bats. The new 2012 Gold Award reflects Rodrigo's outstanding contribution to nature conservation.
02:09
Hydrogen Trailblazers
Officer Tom McCloghry is a cop on the beat, patrolling downtown Columbia, South Carolina to keep the streets safe. And, though it's not so unusual these days to see police on Segways, this one is different. This is a hydrogen hybrid Segway, created with support from the National Science Foundation. In just the last few years, Columbia has transformed itself into a hotbed of hydrogen research, thanks in large part to the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells at the University of South Carolina.
03:49
Taking Action on Climate Change
Pioneers John Elkington, Bjorn Stigson and David Suzuki fear that things may get worse before they get better on climate change issues. Only when our daily lives are disrupted and we have realized the connection between our actions and their consequences, will we finally unite on the issue.
04:01
Volunteering in Ethiopia
Check out what this Edinburgh teacher has to say about her career development break, where she volunteered with VSO in Ethiopia.
02:43
West Africa's Marine Bushmeat
With West African fish stocks under increasing pressure from foreign industrial fishing fleets, scientists are concerned that local people may be forced to increasingly hunt other marine wildlife such as turtles and marine mammals.
03:29
21st Century Leadership
What does it take to be an effective leader in the 21st century? According to John Elkington, Mark Moody Stuart, Rajendra Pachauri and others, leadership on the sustainability agenda will require the vision to make decisions with the next 50 or 100 years in mind, and to identify and support emerging innovators and changemakers.
03:03
Mauritania's Risky Catch
West Africa's coastal fish stocks are being depleted by foreign fishing fleets from Europe and Asia. Overfishing is threatening the region's fish resources and the livelihoods of the people of West Africa. For the fishermen of Mauritania, it is getting hard to make a living. Having to venture out further to sea, their small boats are at risk of capsizing in a storm or being overrun by the foreign trawlers.
03:59
Rethinking Our Economic System
Our economic model is believed by many to be broken. Pioneers Jonathan Porritt, Achim Steiner, Bjorn Stigson and others emphasize the need to challenge the orthodoxies of our current model, envisioning a transition from an economically-driven framework to one that acknowledges ecological infrastructure as the foundation.
05:01
Reducing ozone depletion
The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. The phase out is planned via a timetable. For example, the substance hydro chlorofluorocarbon has a first deadline of 2015 and a final phase-out by 2030.
