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Public Enemy n°1: Carbon

Documentary

Format

Documentary

1x52’, shot in HD 16:9

 

Delivery

October 2009

 

Broadcasters involved

France 3 (France), ERT (Greece), RTBF (Belgium), NRK (Norway), RTP (Portugal) and CyBC (Cyprus)

 

Partners

The European Commission – DG Research, Météo France, Agence Française pour l’Environnement (ADEME)

Région Midi-Pyrénées (France)

 

Production companies

Georama TV Productions (France)

BFS Films & TV Productions (Canada)

Bluewing TV Productions (Greece)

 

Budget

€ 700,000

 

Eurovision TV contact

Laura Longobardi
+41 22 717 24 23

In recent years CO2 has attracted a great deal of attention and even panic, as the steady increase in CO2 emissions has started to destabilizing our climate.

 

Each year, 90 billion tonnes of CO2 circulate between the ocean and the atmosphere. The quantity produced by man is a ‘mere’ 10 billion tonnes, but that is enough to upset the Earth’s natural ecosystem.

 

In a self-amplifying cycle, the increase in CO2 is gradually affecting the entire worldwide environment: oxygen available in the ocean depths is dropping, thereby slowly but surely extinguishing life itself in the sea but also affecting on Earth. Man has come short-term emergency solutions by burying CO2 but has not yet come up with long-term solutions.

With the assistance of French, Scandinavian, American, Canadian and English scientists and climate experts, this film will explore this natural and universal phenomenon through its effects.

 

Shot in outdoor and indoor locations around the world, the film will also use CGI and animation to achieve its educational goal: informing people about the global danger we are all facing, how it is happening, how we can stop it and how we are seeing the last days of earth as we know it if we do not urgently take action.

 

Author’s statement: “In order to allow people to make informed decisions about their future, the goal of our film is to provide the real ‘state of affairs’ of this incombustible gas , to propose possible remedies to the CO2 problem and to present the more catastrophic outcomes that seem to inexorably present themselves to us – if no action is taken”.



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