Wondering what’s going on in Paris? And why you should care? A team of young people working on climate issues from many perspectives—policy, science, media, activism—have created Climate Countdown, a video web series that follows the people who are crafting paths toward a meaningful climate agreement at the Paris climate summit. 

Kaia Rose’s remarkable web series (introduced earlier on City Atlas) lets you follow the process and players of next week’s Paris climate talks through the past several months, leading up to and through the talks themselves. Rose’s episodic documentary is an easily understood guide to the story of the century.

Kaia Rose: Freelance filmmaker, producer and editor based in New York City. Director of Climate Countdown, a web-series that follows people crafting paths toward a successful COP21.

Climate Countdown distills the complexity of UN negotiations and climate action into concise and conversational “post-it” sized episodes. We are on a journey to discover what is actually being done to help make 2015 a game-changing year for the climate crisis.  With each episode, we build a better understanding of how the pieces fit together and how we, as citizens, can be engaged and empowered as we countdown to Paris.

Join us at Columbia's cinema for the first screening event of the Climate Countdown webseries -- a media project that promotes greater understanding of international climate policy and helps to engage & empower the public to support urgent climate action. 

Kaia Rose knew she didn’t know enough about what the world is doing to solve climate change, so she’s making a film (in several parts, presented on YouTube) for young people like her to watch and learn. And it’s become a record of the steps up to the pivotal meeting about the fate of the planet, which starts at the end of next month in Paris. 

Filmmaker Kaia Rose speaking to students in Professor Percival’s Environmental Law class about how to make environmental law films.  Ms. Rose currently is filming interviews for her website www.climatecountdown.org.  She filmed interviews with students from China, Costa Rica and the U.S. who are in Prof Percival’s class.

In July of 2015 Spencer Schect sat down with Kaia Rose in NYC to talk about her web series The Climate Countdown. Kaia and her friends are tracking the UNFCCC process in video blog format and breaking down the moving parts for all of us to understand.

Filmmaker Kaia Rose joined the NYC chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby in January 2015. Although concerned and conscious about climate change, Kaia knew little about climate change activism and international climate change policy. She thought, if she herself, a concerned individual, did not know that a pivotal treaty affecting the course of our planet’s future is currently in negotiations, others probably aren’t aware either.

From the classroom to the office, learn how one Bristol University alumni is driving the creative community in Bristol.

One of the films which will be shown is  Looking Forward to Yesterday which is more than just a classic tragic portrait of a love forlorn, it also dealswith existential questions of free will and predestination. We asked co-director Kaia Rose to shed some light on the matter of love and fate and got to talking about the inspiration behind the film and her experience of making it.

Kaia Rose, who graduated this year, has been selected as one of the ten finalists for the Media & Arts Graduate of the Year Award, hosted by The Graduate 100, the largest graduate initiative of its kind in Britain.