We’ve been working with Environmental Bamboo Foundation over the year, but recently we were excited to work with them as the team headed to the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow, UK.

We started with a series of Instagram lives with longtime friends and supporters of the non-profit as they chatted with Arief Rabik about what climate change meant to them and where they saw the possibility of change in the future. Lives were held with Sara and Michael Franti, Sam Branson, Happy Salma, Indonesia Education Minister Nadiem Makarim, and Elora Hardy. Watch them all on the Foundation’s Instagram.

The Environmental Bamboo Foundation was invited to co-host two panel discussions at the Indonesia Pavilion at COP 26.

Definitely a new challenge for us to to provide support remotely with an event in several different time zones and a hybrid panel of in person and online speakers.

As part of the panels, we worked with ASA Film to create two short films about communities facing climate change in NTT. The first film shows the aftermath of Cyclone Seroja and how the community is thinking about the future of more extreme weather events. The second focuses on the stories of Mama Bambu, women creating bamboo seedlings and nurseries to reforest their degraded lands.

We also produced merchandise for the team to take with them to Glasgow, including masks, t-shirts, hoodies, brochures, name cards and gifts.