The Night of Ideas:
Tbilisi event hosts talk on climate change

Georgia’s capital Tbilisi will join a global program of talks on tackling climate change with environmental professionals, climate activists and the public coming together for a film screening and discussion tomorrow.

Organised by the French Institute in Tbilisi, the international occasion is known as La Nuit des idees (The Night of Ideas) and will be hosted in 40 countries across the globe on January 26.

At 50 events run in countries from Singapore to Switzerland, experts and environmentally-minded citizens will come together under the theme A Common World.

See the trailer for the 2015 documentary ‘Tomorrow’ below:

The Tbilisi event is titled The Night of Ideas: Climate Change in Georgia and will be hosted at Frontline Club Georgia.

Participants will attend a screening of the 2015 documentary film Tomorrow by Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent, showing local communities working for practical solutions to climate issues in their neighbourhoods across the world.

The documentary won the 2016 Cesar Awards and was nominated for the Lumiere Awards in France.

The documentary ‘Tomorrow’ tells stories of local communities in their search of solutions to climate issues. Photo: demain-lefilm.com.

The screening at Frontline Georgia will be followed by a follow-up discussion on environmental matters, featuring chairperson of Georgia’s National Environmental Agency Tamar Bagratia and Melano Tkabladze of the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network.

Moderated by executive director of BRIDGE – Innovation and Development, Nino Janashia, the talk will focus on climate change effects in Georgia and social responsibility in countering them.

The discussion will also concern the role of "individuals, cities and the state” in proposing and adopting environmental ideas and projects and will review opportunities for sharing successful initiatives in the struggle against climate change.