Former US Vice President and Climate Reality Chairman Al Gore to lead round-the-clock call to action on Nov. 13-14 from climate experts, activists, celebrities and musicians
Seeking to generate momentum for strong action on climate from world leaders in the final days before the UN climate talks in Paris, former US Vice President and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project Al Gore will lead the global broadcast of 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching, airing from 6pm CET, Friday, November 13 to 6pm CET, Saturday, November 14.
This round-the-clock programme will unite a global audience in demanding a strong climate agreement in Paris and include presentations and performances from leading climate experts and activists and award-winning celebrities and musicians. French leaders President François Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will join in the broadcast, which is produced by The Climate Reality Project and Live Earth.
Anchored from Paris, The World Is Watching will broadcast live from the Champ de Mars in the Seventh Arrondissement and feature both live and pre-recorded segments from other spotlight locations in the United States, Australia, Brazil, India, Canada, China, the Philippines, and South Africa. The broadcast will focus on the local and global impacts of climate change, as well as promising solutions that can be found around the world today. In addition to President Hollande and Mayor Hidalgo, experts like glaciologist Claude Lorius, elected leaders like California Governor Jerry Brown and other special guests like film and television actor Ryan Reynolds will join throughout the 24-hour programme. These include:
Government Officials
President François Hollande, France
Brian Deese, Senior Advisor to United States President Barack Obama
Governor Jerry Brown, California, United States
Dr. Ernest Moniz, Secretary, United States Department of Energy
Dr. Steven Miles, Queensland Minister for Environment and Heritage Protection, Australia
Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris, France
Mayor Philip Levine, Miami Beach, United States
Media Personalities
Patrick J. Adams, actor and activist
Atom Araullo, News Reporter, ABS-CBN News
Sarah Backhouse, Founder & CEO of Future360.tv
Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Activist
Sam Champion, Weather Anchor, The Weather Channel
Barkha Dutt, Television Journalist, NDTV
Maria Paula Fidalgo, Actor and Activist
Porter Fox, Author and Editor at POWDER magazine
Vanessa Hauc, Journalist, Telemundo
Nicolas Hulot, Media Personality and Activist
Nicolas Ibarguen, Environmental Correspondent, Fusion and Univision
Africa Melane, Presenter, CapeTalk and 702
Ryan Reynolds, Actor and Activist
Calum Worthy, Actor and Activist
NGO and business leaders
Dr. Anish Andheria, President of the Wildlife Conservation Trust
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General
Chinmaya Acharya, Chief of Programs, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Yoca Arditi-Rocha, Director and Founder, No Planeta B
Ken Berlin, President and CEO, The Climate Reality Project
Wang Binbin, Manager of the Climate Change and Poverty Team, Oxfam
Keith Brooks, Clean Economy Programme Director, Environmental Defence
Ian Bruce, Science and Policy Manager, David Suzuki Foundation
Dr. Fuqiang Yang, Senior Advisor, Climate and Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council China
Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO, Savory Institute
Claude Lorius, Glaciologist, Director Emeritus of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alix Mazounie, Climate Action Network – France
Mithika Mwenda, Head of Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance
Evan Rice, CEO, GreenCape
Juliette Rousseau, Coalition Climat 21
Mauricio Ruiz, Executive Secretary of Terra Institute of Environmental Preservation
Bittu Sahgal, Founder of Sanctuary Asia
Wang Shi, Chairman, China Vanke Co. Ltd.
Zhang Xiangdong, Co-Founder and CEO of 700Bike
Adrian Yeo, CAN’s Leadership Development Programme Fellow
In addition to featuring engaging stories of climate impacts and solutions, each hour of the broadcast will be punctuated by thought-provoking, knockout appearances from all-star participants (which will be announced in a separate release). The broadcast is aimed at urging world leaders to push for the strongest possible climate agreement at the upcoming UN conference in Paris and at urging people to take action in their own communities and homes.
The Climate Reality Project’s partnership with Live Earth for this fifth-annual 24 Hours of Reality broadcast will give the program an unprecedented artistic lineup and distribution platform to maximise its global reach.
“‘24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth’ is about mobilising people around the world to help solve the climate crisis and making our voices heard in national capitols and at the negotiating table in Paris,” said Vice President Al Gore. “The UN climate talks have the potential to produce a breakthrough that changes the dangerous course on which we are presently headed and put us instead on a path to a truly sustainable and prosperous future. We want leaders from every country to know that the world is watching, and that it’s time for them to take climate action.”
“We have to get every major country to make a strong commitment at COP 21,” said Climate Reality President and CEO Ken Berlin. “The time is now for world leaders to sign an emissions reduction agreement that includes five-year reviews of their commitments, a long-term goal, and the global prioritisation of renewable energy. It is time for global action – the world is watching.”
“The media landscape is cluttered, people’s lives are busy and the way people access information and connect with each other varies from person to person. To cut through, you have to provide truly compelling content and match it with multiple distribution streams that reach people in their homes and on the go,” said Live Earth Founder Kevin Wall. “The climate crisis is grave, so we are harnessing the best content and the latest in mobile, social media, and online distribution to make sure we can connect with people everywhere.”
The broadcast will be seen all over the world across numerous media outlets and platforms, even as Renaud Le Van Kim and his company Together Media have been chosen by The Climate Reality Project to produce the event in Paris. The entire production is being overseen by Executive Producer Peter M. Green and his partners at ShoulderHill Events.
