Join an intergenerational journey and discover worldviews on how we will respond to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
Be part of a testimony to the future generations.
From the Pact of the Future
At the Summit of the Future on 22 September 2024, world leaders adopted a Pact for the Future, an international agreement laying out commitments and deliverables on a range of issues for a more sustainable, just and peaceful world. See the resolution. Included in the pact is the Declaration on Future Generations which reaffirms our obligation to safeguard the needs and interests of future generations. It recognizes that action or inaction today has an intergenerational impact. Being mindful of the complexity of today’s world, Awarenearth wants to know if this new consensus will lead us in the right direction and how it will impact people and nature in a series of locations across terrestrial and marine biomes around the world.
Join the journey
Over five years, Awarenearth will meet with local communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth, researchers, policymakers and practitioners worldwide to discover and share their views and their engagement on the future of this planet. Discover how this relates directly to the issues set out in the Pact of the Future. Awarenearth will broadcast these human stories through a series of short documentaries released regularly in the lead up to the culmination of 2030 Agenda.
Re-visit the planet
Awarenearth documentaries will be filmed across the seven continents and the ocean. To ensure a holistic and inclusive process, while we will hear from a diverse range of humans in their natural habitat, we will also document the current state of the planet, visually capturing the beauty, destruction and all the places in between so we can show to future generations how the planet exists today and what their ancestors had to share and to offer to contribute to a better and more just world.
Awarenearth time capsule
Imagine a modern day treasure chest, filled with memories, testimonials, videos and imagery - about the world lived by our ancestors. Where real-life hopes and dreams are delivered from a habitat that may be no longer exists. With documentary of plant or animal species that no longer live on the planet. The aim of the Awarenearth time capsule is to use footage and special content from the documentary series, safely store it in a time capsule and ensure its accessibility for future generations.
About the founder
Chris Guillot is the founder of Awarenearth. He has worked for over 25 years in the diplomatic, scientific and humanitarian fields and lived in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous environments. In countries from North Korea to Chad, Haiti to Nepal, and regions spanning Middle East to South America and Asia, he has been engaged with the Swiss Government, United Nations, World Bank, International Committee of the Red Cross and American Geophysical Union on anthropogenic threats to humanity with local to global solutions balancing human and nature needs. Throughout his professional career he has met with political and climate refugees, practitioners, politicians, decision-makers, youth, diplomats, and families, listening to their personal stories and their hopes and fears for their children and grandchildren, as well as for the natural world around them. Their lives and their voices have inspired Chris to pursue the Awarenearth project at this critical junction in history and as an artistic testimony to be shared with everyone.
