The Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform-led Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict [ECCP]are launching a global grassroots project showcasing the impact of environmental and climate change on communities and conflict around the world.

Using art as a platform for reflection, testimony, and conversation, “طبعة الطبيعة | Nature Footprints” will be a multilingual, multimedia ‘storybook’. The book will be launched at COP28, emphasizing the critical need to put issues of peace and conflict in the spotlight during climate change negotiations.

طبعة الطبيعة (pronounced “tabeat altabiea”) literally translates to “The Nature Edition” in Arabic, and can also refer to “the impact or footprint of nature”. The Arabic name honors the host region for COP28, but also carries a significance for the project.

The ‘storybook’ is going to be a multilingual, multimedia gallery of accessible art, testimony, and policy recommendations, authored by those most impacted by climate-related conflict or engaged in environmental peacebuilding. It will be published primarily as a virtual gallery (with visual art, illustration, animation, photography, poetry, recorded performances, photographic depictions of sculpture, high-resolution images, etc.).

One of the stories is about the DANCING TREES project, DAH Theater.