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Print articleIt marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organisations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former US Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.
Concerts will be staged in all corners of the world including Wembley Stadium in London, New York, Sydney, Copacabana Beach, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hamburg. There will also be thousands of smaller event in over 100 countries, though no Muslim countries are taking part in the main events. Turkey recently pulled out stating that there was ?lack of interest.?
Among the smaller events is what promises to be the smallest and most remote event: British Antarctic Survey's own band Nunatak playing at their base at the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica.
Other lesser known bands include:
London: Madonna, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Duran Duran, Genesis, Razorlight, Foo Fighters, Keane, Snow Patrol, Black Eyed Peas (performing a specially written piece for the event), Kasabian, Pussycat Dolls and Spinal Tap.
New York: Akon, Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, KT Tunstall, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Smashing Pumpkins and The Police.
If you want dinner with Spinal Tap, they are offering themselves up on a special auction site on ebay. The bid is already over $5000, but it does benefit from free worldwide delivery.
Al Gore, whose film 'An Inconvenient Truth' about climate change won this year's Oscar for best documentary, says one of the key aims is to urge a massive reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050.
He said:
?If we are going to solve the crisis, we have to commit, and we have to do it now. Live Earth will ask people across the world to commit to changes in their lives and to move other people, communities, companies and governments to reduce our carbon output by 90 percent by 2050 and ensure there is a new, global treaty on climate change by 2009.?
