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20 April 2011

Hard Rain – how people in Asia-Pacific are living with climate change

Films broadcast on BBC series Nature Inc. with UNDP support

Hard Rain is a two-part independent production on climate change and human development in Asia and the Pacific. The films focus on how people, especially vulnerable communities on coasts and plains are living with climate risks and already adapting.  Shot in Kiribati, India, the Philippines and Viet Nam, the films bring in peoples perspectives from the ground as well as those of policy makers.

What can help and where are opportunities to move forward?   What are the policy dilemmas that remain? The spirit of the film is to be as solution oriented despite manifold challenges both current and future.

Produced as a curtain raiser and complement to the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Human Development Report  on Climate Change, Part 1 has been broadcast on BBC World News TV as part of its  “Nature Inc.” series on 17 April [repeat broadcast 18 April] and Part 2 is scheduled for broadcast on 23 and 24 April on the same channel.

International versions of the film will be rolled out on public networks throughout the Region in the course of the year.  Hard Rain is produced by Dev TV with collaboration and funding by UNDP.

Check the programme schedule for these screenings and repeat broadcasts.