Final Project

About the Final Project

Do you care about climate change? Want to tell the world about the issue in a creative way?

Submit your final project by creating a fact-based essay or a work of multimedia work (make a video/podcast interview or animated short video/your own talk show…etc.) to express your thoughts on a climate topic that you care about most.


Project Topic

Your final project can cover any aspect of climate change, such as:
- climate change effects
- climate change costs
- how to fight climate change
- what your country or other countries, institutions, or individuals are doing
- reducing your carbon footprint
- renewable energy sources
- environmental justice

Contribute your proposal and win the opportunity to speak as the young leaders’ representative at the annual Caixin Summit happening in mid-November.

The Caixin Summit is Caixin’s highest-profile and largest conference series, and is recognized as one of the most authoritative and forward-looking annual events in the economic arena of China. Converse with opinion leaders and key policymakers in the field, get ready to learn and be inspired.

For your contribution to be valid, the following criteria must be met:

Form:

Essay
- Submission should be limited to 500-800 words (excl. abstract, bibliography, and footnotes).
- The file format: PDF or Word document

Work of multimedia
- The length for your video or audio recording is three to five minutes
- The file format: mp3, m4a, mp4

Language:

Essay
The essay should be written in English.

Multimedia work
The video or podcast should be recorded in English. English subtitles will be needed if part of your work contains other languages.

Deadline:

Sept. 30, 2022, 11:59 p.m. (GMT+8)

Individuality:

Essay
Individual work is required. The essay must be written exclusively for this project, and the ideas must be the author’s own.

Multimedia work
Individual work or teamwork (up to two producers, both of whom should participate on the program) is accepted. The work must be original and created exclusively for this project.

*General requirements: The work must not contain obscene, violent, pornographic, defamatory, objectionable, insulting or any of the controversial and inappropriate content.

Citation:

Essay
All sources must be cited, whether APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles.

Multimedia work
- If you need to use materials belonging to others in your video, you must comply with copyright and fair use policies.
- If the work contains authorized material(s) or requests a permission during video/audio recording, the entrant should obtain the authorization(s) from the copyright owner(s) or corresponding venue owner(s). You may be requested to show their approval documents.

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