Planetary Health Film Lab 2023 Belize Edition Debrief, with Mark Terry

Now in its fourth year, the Dahdaleh Institute’s Planetary Health Film Lab (PHFL) will examine this year’s research in Central America, specifically in Belize. The project worked with Indigenous youth and their communities training them to tell stories of climate impacts in their communities using film. The films that were made in this lab have been reviewed by the United Nations and approved for addition to the UNFCCC’s database of youth-made films known as the Youth Climate Report. In this seminar, Dahdaleh research fellow, and the project co-lead, Mark Terry will discuss the events of this year’s PHFL and showcase several films that will be presented at this year’s UN climate summit, COP28 in Dubai. These following films were created in the native Maya languages of Q’eqchi’ and/or Mopan and all have English subtitles:

1. Promoting Maya Food Sovereignty by Christy Cho
2. Climate Change and Action in Na Luum Ca, Belize by Ernesto Pau
3. The Forest, Land, and Water are Hurting by Florenio Xuc
4. To Be Maya, To Be Well by Nazario Peck
5. The Importance of Securing Land Tenure by Sebastian Cho
6. Cacao Farming by Viola Cus

Speaker Profile

Mark Terry, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and The Explorers Club. He is also Contract Faculty with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto and serves as the Chair of the ADERSIM Arctic Group and Associate to the UNESCO Chair for Reorienting Education towards Sustainability. Mark teaches and speaks regularly through these groups and organizations about the environmental issues affecting the fragile eco-systems of the polar regions and, by extension, the world.

Mark has worked with the United Nations since 2011 on the Youth Climate Report, providing films of global scientific research to its annual climate summits known as the COP conferences. His pioneering work in documentary remediation for the UN earned him the Gemini Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. His current work with GIS mapping was recently recognized by the UN with a Sustainability Development Goals Action Award. He has also been decorated by Queen Elizabeth for this work with her Diamond Jubilee Medal and by The Explorers Club with its Stefansson Medal, the organization’s highest honour. In 2015, Canadian Geographic Magazine named him one of Canada’s Top 100 Greatest Explorers of all time.

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