Contraction & Convergence (C&C) is a science-based and transparently equitable framework for cutting global carbon emissions developed by the musician Aubrey Meyer (director of the Global Commons Institute), after he promised his tearful four year old daughter that he 'would find out if the planet was dying and do something about it if it was'.

Twenty years later, the logic of C&C and Meyer's determined advocacy have persuaded eminent climate scientists, health professionals, economists, business people, faith leaders and politicians in many countries that C&C can break the deadlock at the UN climate talks and is the only viable basis for a climate deal that can satisfy the principles of equity and precaution required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC].
 
Mainstream press and TV have failed to engage with C&C - mainly because it is not supported by the major environmental NGOs and because Meyer lacks the institutional and financial resources to promote it.  As a result, this brilliantly simple and potentially popular idea remains unknown to the public and off the agenda at the UNFCCC.

Film is our most powerful medium and the only way to engage a world-wide audience with C&C. 
This film will tell Aubrey Meyer's remarkable story and show how the logic and harmony of music hold the key to effective global action.  With great performances from superb musicians from many countries, powerful images, compelling contributors and a very human story, told in part through brilliant animations, the film will show how C&C can end our addiction to fossil fuels and lay the foundations of a sustainable and fairer world.  

It will be the first film to show how we can actually avert climate chaos.  It will tap into the universal appeal of music and be promoted as 'music's response to climate change'.  This will help to increase its reach and influence on policy makers and, we hope, ultimately ensure that future generations can avoid a climate-change holocaust.

This project is the fruit of a long-term collaboration between documentary film maker Michael Hutchinson and Aubrey Meyer. It grew from the production of a DVD about C&C for the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group by Tangent Films, a production company set up by Michael Hutchinson and others in 1998.

We are setting up a charitable foundation to raise funds to communicate C&C on the big screen, TV and web. This will work in conjunction with a Community Interest Company that will be formed to produce the movie and create an engaging website that offers compelling video and animated material about C&C for children and adults. Our guiding principle comes from a Kenyan proverb:

If there are to be problems, may they come during my lifetime, so that I can resolve them and give my children the chance of a good life"

C&C has been described as 'the most important idea since the Renaissance and our last chance of avoiding climate chaos'. We are looking for sponsors and investors who appreciate the urgent need to communicate it to the widest possible global audience.

If you are interested in helping, please email: info@candcmovie.com

For further information about C&C please visit the website of The Global Commons Institute: www.gci.org.uk

To view endorsements of C&C: www.gci.org.uk/endorsements.html

We gratefully acknowledge support from Alexander and Clio Goldsmith
and the Gilardini Foundation.