THE RHYTHM OF WATER

Role: Director, Editor

Launched during the 2026 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings to support the launch of Water Forward, “The Rhythm of Water” was curated by myself and a young Indian poet, Parneet Kaur, using words contributed by the C4C youth community. The video was created from Open Planet footage and personal phone footage shared by the youth contributors and the C4C team, to emphasize the deep relationship we all have with water.

ONCE REPRESENTED

Role: Director, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Editor

Launched at #COP28, "Once Represented" was created by Ahmed Badr using responses from the cohort of 100 COP28 International Youth Climate Delegates that were invited to Dubai by the COP28 Presidency to represent their communities. These impressive delegates brought their unique perspectives, backgrounds and voices to the international climate negotiations, where I captured their experience of being in the COP space.

ONCE UNIMAGINABLE

Role: Director, Editor

Launched at #COP27, "Once Unimaginable" was curated by Ahmed Badr from conversations with Youth4Climate delegates from each of the Sahel G5 countries. I then worked with these young people to capture their voices and personal video of their communities, combining this user-generated style footage with clips from the feature documentary Great Green Wall, courtesy of Make Waves Ltd.

“REPRESENTATION” POEM

ROLE: directOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

Ahmed Badr composed the original piece “Representation” Poem in response to the Youth4Climate Manifesto, which C4C brought to COP26 in partnership with Little Amal, an 11-foot puppet representing a Syrian refugee girl. We paired the poem recording with a soundscape of youth delegate voices as part of a performance on the banks of the River Clyde.

Amplifying Youth Stories

One of C4C’s overarching objectives is to elevate the voices, ideas, and expertise of youth climate leaders in spaces of power. For me, this means leveraging the time I have with these impressive young people while I’m filming at major international events to find creative and unique ways of capturing their stories in formats that can be shared and engaged with by a global audience. Some content centers around games inspired by popular trends, such as Common Climate Questions and Name That Climate Acronym, while other series like My Piece of the Puzzle and Where I’ve Been / Where I’m going provide quick dives into young person’s specific area of work.

ROLE: DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

Intergenerational Solidarity

Providing venues for intergenerational dialogue and fostering intergenerational solidarity are at the foundation of C4C’s work and strongly influences our storytelling strategy. Whether at a COP or Innovate4Climate or Stockholm+50 or other international events, we have experimented with different ways to bring the perspectives of young people and high-level policy experts together, encouraging participants to exchange knowledge and explore new avenues for collaboration that spans cultural, sectoral and generational divides.

ROLE: DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

PLANET WEEK

In the lead-up to the G7 meetings on Climate, Energy and Environment, C4C organised a week of 80+ events in Turin under the banner of Planet Week. To capture the excitement and vitality of the week, I jumped from venue to venue around the city of Turin filming and photographing a wide range of events, from concerts to workshops, from panel discussions to film screenings, Alongside this, we also produced a Digital Media Zone that featured a robust program of interviews with various stakeholders, in both English and Italian, bringing the conversations happening in Torino out to the world. I oversaw the Digital Media Zone set-up and production process, acting as the supervising director while I filmed other events around Turin. The opening sequence was conceived, directed, filmed and edited by me.

ROLE: DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

COP28

At COP28 in Dubai, C4C partnered with the UN Youth Office to produce the Heart-to-Heart series, which featured candid conversations between young climate leaders and high-level representatives from the United Nations, World Bank, and other institutions. Alongside these episodes, we created a collective poem in collaboration with the COP28 Youth Climate Champion, organised a roundtable discussion between World Bank management and Max Thabiso Edkins Climate Ambassadors, and filmed interviews for our ongoing youth stories series.

ROLE: DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

COP27

C4C attended the 27th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt to highlight stories of youth leadership, unpack important climate concepts, amplify intergenerational dialogue, and support the World Bank Group communications team. I spent the full two weeks running around the COP venue with my camera, interviewing youth leaders and climate experts for a variety of content threads that we produced both during and after the conference, including COP of Coffee, Youth4Climate Booth, What the COP is it all about?, Name that Climate Acronym, and Common Climate Questions.

ROLE: DIRECTOR, EDITOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

role: director, editor, and cinematographer for the niger story

At COP24, the World Bank announced a major new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, including a major focus on adaptation finance. To support this launch, Connect4Climate helped produce a series of videos showing the human side of climate adaptation in Niger and Kiribati. I worked closely with the World Bank team to create an outline and choose locations, then travelled to Maradi in the east of Niger to film Amadou, a cassava farmer. By creating a clear shot list and working closely with our videographer in Kiribati, I was able to match shots during editing and weave these two stories from different sides of the planet into a cohesive narrative.

role: director, editor

In 2019, Connect4Climate collaborated with the World Bank Climate team again to support the launch of the Global Commission on Adaptation’s new report “Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience.” Instead of shooting new content, we used recycled footage from the World Bank archives to create a new video highlighting how climate change is already impacting lives and livelihoods, especially in the world’s poorest countries and that good adaptation can help improve lives, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and enhance resilience around the world. At its heart, Adaptation is about People.

Innovate4Climate

ROLE: director, editor, cinematographer

At Innovate4Climate 2019 in Singapore, I helped coordinate a Youth Takeover and edited both a quick turnaround video to document the inaugural Pitch Hub Competition and a wrap-up video for the entire summit. At the 2018 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, I created a 24-hour turnaround video to close the conference and a full recap video.