NZ premiere 8 August: "The Solar Nation of Tokelau"

NZ premiere 8 August: "The Solar Nation of Tokelau"

The TV documentary “The Solar Nation of Tokelau” was produced for German TV and broadcast by ARTE TV, a French-German arts and culture channel, in September 2015. It shows how a small Pacific island nation switched its power supply to 100% solar energy, thus becoming the first nation in the world to be free of CO2 emissions and having the most sustainable power generation on earth. At the same time Tokelau is one of the small island groups that is most affected by climate change. And yet it has given the world an example of how the fight against climate change can effectively be fought by even the smallest countries in the world.

The screening of the English version of this documentary will be a NZ and Asia-Pacific premiere.

The event has been organised by Rotary Club Devonport and is supported by the New Zealand German Business Association (German Trade Office), The German Embassy and the Goethe Institute in Wellington.

After the 45 minute documentary we'll have a panel discussion with following participants:

• Dr Jim Salinger (climate change scientist and Nobel prize winner)

• Shane Jones (Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development, MFAT)

• Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Afega Gaualoga

• Henry Cassin (Solar energy Advisor)

• Ulli Weissbach (director of the documentary)

BMW will exhibit one of its new e-cars in front of the cinema. And a NZ manufacturer of e-bikes will give the audience a chance to try out its products.

Tickets are $ 25.00 each (+ $1.50 online booking fee), of which $ 10 go to a Rotary sponsored cyclone relief project in Vanuatu, $10.00 to the cinema and $ 5.00 for an included pre-show drink. Media, i.e. you, are of course invited FOC.

Tickets are available from the Victoria Cinema at http://www.thevic.co.nz/movies/11600.php

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