THE BODY AS A BATTLEFIELD

KLIMALAB

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

KlimaKontoret: A Participatory Experiment 

Why can’t we just sit down and talk?

The Silence of Aung San Suu Kyi 

On the 5thApril we at the Nobel Peace Center opened our new Exhibition KlimaLab, a vibrant exhibition about the climate, nature and people. It is an interactive experience for children and adults consisting of art installations you can touch, feel and even eat.

Klimalab is open to the public, but it is not completed. We want you to help us complete the exhibition, because climate change concerns us all and it is up to our generation to find a solution together.

This Exhibition was made possible by Fritt ord and Hyundai Norway. 

To stop climate change, we all have to make changes in our own lives. We challenge you to become a KlimaBoss at home -Can you manage 30 days without meat? Can you plan your holiday without flying or maybe shop a bit smarter?

The exhibition is inspired by the father of the Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, and his idea of “acting for the greatest benefit to humankind”, as well as Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Wangari Maathai, Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who all received the Prize for their work to combat climate change. KlimaLab is open until January 2020. It is curated and produced by the Nobel Peace Center and is a part of the programme for Oslo European Green Capital 2019.

A place for us? (the Forest): Trond Solberg
The Nest: Jan Hakon Erichsen, Robert Johansson
The Mural: Renate Thor
Lighting: Kyrre Heldal Karlsen

A list of seven demands will be handed over to the UN after the first ever Oslo Pax. Young activists, experts, politicians and Nobel laureates, invited by the Nobel Peace Center, have rallied in Oslo to discuss how climate change affects peace and security.

Climate stability must be recognized as a human right, and climate change as a threat to human security. These are two of the seven demands that Christiana Figueres handed over to the UN after the conference Oslo Pax 4 and 5 September. For the first time, the Nobel Peace Center gathered young activists, experts, decision makers and Nobel laureates to a call for action for peace and climate change.

said Christiana Figueres. The former UN Diplomat, who oversaw the Paris agreement, was chair of Oslo Pax – a two-day conference in Oslo, where different groups met to listen and learn and discuss concrete solutions for peace and against climate disruption.

Among the speakers were Norwegian minister of foreign affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman, Amnesty International's general secretary Kumi Naidoo, President of the Norwegian Red Cross Robert Mood and Cicero's director Kristin Halvorsen. 

In a conversation on stage, 14-year-old climate activist Penelope Lea asked Christiana Figueres: 

“If you where 15 today, what would you be doing?” 

“I would be doing the exact same thing as I do at 63”, I would be screaming in the streets”. 

Conversations between young and old, activists and experts, was the hallmark of Oslo Pax. And together with young activists Kelsey Juliana, Morgane Ollier and Sofie Nordvik, Christiana Figueres formulated a list of seven demands to the UN Climate Summit 23. September. Sofie Nordvik, Norway's youth delegate to the summit, will hand the demands over to the UN Secretary General.

1. Recognize climate stability as a human right

2. Acknowledge climate change as a threat to international peace and security

3. Provide people being displaced involuntarily by climate change with a safe homeland

4. Rethink financial structures to reflect the need for sustainable economies based on growth with ecological and human integrity

5. Provide carbon footprint transparency on all consumer products in order to facilitate more informed consumer choices

6. Ensure women and girls of all ages fully contribute to climate-related planning, policymaking and implementation world wide

7. Commit to meaningful participation of Youth

THE BODY AS A BATTLEFIELD

KLIMALAB

Oslo Pax with a clear message to the UN

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