Project Pressure

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Project Pressure is a global environmental charity founded in 2008, with the mission to visualize the climate crisis. Project Pressure uses art as a touch-point to inspire action and behavioral change.

Glacier mass loss can be directly attributed to global temperature changes, they are key indicators of climate change and is the focus of the charity's visualizations. There are vital human stories related as glaciers provide water for billions of people and their crops and their loss is not just a natural disaster, but the beginning of a humanitarian crisis.

Collaborating with a wide range of artists, and with partnerships such as NASA and the World Glacier Monitoring Service, Project Pressure's goal is to create and exhibit work aimed at engaging people emotionally, in order to incite climate action.

Since 2008 they have conducted more than 30 expeditions, creating scientific artworks. These are brought together in MELTDOWN - a museum exhibition that has been touring globally and has been regularly featured in The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Le Monde, Wired, and National Geographic. MELTDOWN has previously been shown at The Horniman museum in London and is in 2022 to be shown at Jacopic Galley, Ljubljana and at Whirinaki Whare Taonga, New Zealand.

In 2019, Project Pressure was responsible for Voices For The Future - an art piece projected and transmitted on the UN building in New York in the lead up to the UN Climate Action Summit.'Voices For The Future' showcased the voices of six young activists, including Greta Thunberg. Soundtracked by musician and artist Brian Eno, the comment on the climate crisis (and the urgent actions that need to be taken to minimize its consequences).

Project pressure was founded by the Danish explorer and photographer Klaus Thymann in 2008. Since then, Project Pressure has pioneered innovative technological strategies and forged partnerships with the World Glacier Monitoring Service and NASA. In 2011, Project Pressure was recognized as an official contributor to the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers.

Function

Since 2008, resources have been put into projects helping people understand the logistics behind climate change to achieve real solutions. The charity drives advocacy at the national and supranational level with policymakers, encouraging mass behavior change and appropriate activism calling for the urgent implementation and scaling of scientifically-backed solutions.

Project Pressure is placed to work with front-line activists, trades unions and employer bodies, faith groups, and charitable organizations providing them with material to communicate their messages around sustainability and environmental protection.

Additionally, Project Pressure functions as content provider for existing partners, communicating on multiple platforms. This includes well-established relationships with progressive governments, museums and cultural organizations, the global mass media, and other public bodies and grassroots organizations such as Fridays For Future.

Funding

Recognition and funding have come from several global benefactors, including Arts Council England, Government of Switzerland, United Nations, The Lighthouse Foundation, Getty Images, The Danish Embassy, Hasselblad, the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and HRH Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.