(11 Nov 2024)
IRAQ CLIMATE AWARENESS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baghdad, Iraq – 9 November 2024
1. Participants at clay festival which was organized to raise awareness on climate change
2. People using clay to express their thoughts on climate change
3. Artwork made with clay depicting planet Earth with two leaves on top
4. Various of participant working with clay
5. Tracking shot showing piles of clay on the floor, visitors and participants at the event
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marwa al-Naimi, member of Green Gold foundation team:
"The aim of this festival is to raise environmental awareness when it comes to matters related to climate change, which is affecting many countries including Iraq. Iraq is one of the countries that are most affected by climate change, higher temperatures, lack of plant cover and pollution, especially in the soil."
7. Various of festival
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marwa al-Naimi, member of Green Gold foundation team:
"Our message today is about our interest in art and how to achieve profound messages through art and through working with clay, and (the work of) sculptors and even painters. It is about how we can send these messages and increase environmental awareness among individuals and communities."
9. Various of participants at festival working with clay
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salah Zeina, clay sculptor from Baghdad:
"It is a message to society, to governments, officials and all of those who noticed that their surrounding is being transformed into a garbage dump. Look at the weather and how it is affecting us. We don’t even have explanations.”
11. Various of festival
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lana Sabah, visitor:
"There are children, adults, sculptors and painters here. If we get children at this age to understand how to preserve the environment, then we create a generation that will contribute to the protection of the environment."
13. Various of clay prepared on the ground
14. Sculptors and visitors at clay festival
STORYLINE:
Iraqis in Baghdad used clay to express their thoughts and concerns on climate change during a festival held over the weekend.
Sculptors and artists took part in the event, whose aim was to raise awareness about the impact of climate change and the threat it poses to developing countries.
Climate change has affected millions across Iraq in recent years.
Its impact on Iraq’s water resources and agriculture has also come at an economic cost.
The one-day festival that was organized by Green Gold foundation for sustainable development and supported by the German Foreign Ministry.
Iraq struggles with "higher temperatures, lack of plant cover and pollution," said Marwa al-Naimi, a member of the Green Gold team.
Climate change for years has compounded the woes of the troubled country.
Droughts and increased water salinity have destroyed crops, animals and farms and dried up entire bodies of water.
Hospitals in Iraq have faced waves of patients with respiratory illnesses caused by rampant sandstorms.
Participants at the festival in Baghdad tackled everything from pollution to the way climate change has impacted people’s health.
Sculptor Salah Zeina expressed his frustration with the changes Iraq has seen over the years.
"Look at the weather and how it is affecting us. We don’t even have explanations," he said.
The festival offered some visitors glimpse of hope, teaching children about the environment by getting them to play with clay at a park.
AP video shot by Ali Jabar
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