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AL GORE, KEVIN WALL, PHARRELL, CAMERON DIAZ LAUNCH
UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN, CONCERT TO COMBAT CLIMATE CRISIS "Live
Earth" Concerts in All 7 Continents to Reach Global Audience of Over
2 Billion
Los Angeles, CA - Detailing a historic effort to engage billions
of people across the globe, Kevin Wall, Al Gore, Pharrell Williams,
Cameron Diaz, and the MSN Network today launched Save Our Selves
(SOS) - The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis. The announcement was
made at the California Science Center.
SOS is designed to trigger a global movement to combat our
climate crisis. It will reach people in every corner of the planet
through television, film, radio, the Internet and Live Earth, a
24-hour concert on 7/7/07 across all 7 continents that will bring
together more than 100 of the world's top musical acts. Live Earth
alone will engage an audience of more than 2 billion people through
concert attendance and broadcasts. MSN has partnered with SOS to use
its reach to make the Live Earth concerts available across the
globe. The Live Earth audience, and the proceeds from the concerts,
will create the foundation for a new, multi-year global effort to
combat the climate crisis led by The Alliance for Climate Protection
and its Chair, Vice President Al Gore. SOS was founded by Kevin
Wall, who won an Emmy as Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8.
"Our climate crisis is the paramount challenge facing humanity.
SOS is more than a global distress call. SOS will give the world the
tools we need to answer that call with meaningful action. The most
important part of SOS is how individuals, corporations, and
governments respond," Wall said. "Our climate crisis affects
everyone, everywhere, and that's who SOS is aimed at. Only a global
response can conquer our climate crisis. SOS asks all people to Save
Our Selves because only we can."
"In order to solve the Climate Crisis, we have to reach billions
of people. We are launching SOS and Live Earth to begin a process of
communication that will mobilize people all over the world to take
action," Gore said. "The Climate Crisis will only be stopped by an
unprecedented and sustained global movement. We hope to jump-start
that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on
July 7, 2007."
"At MSN, we have the worldwide audience and the technology stage
to help unite a global community around SOS and Live Earth," said
Joanne Bradford, corporate vice president and chief media officer of
MSN. "Anyone around the world with an Internet connection will be
able to come to MSN to view not just the concert events, but also an
extensive collection of interactive media that will entertain,
educate, inspire and ultimately drive change." Wall announced 25 of
the 100 top musical acts that have answered SOS's call and are
performing at Live Earth. SOS is also engaging other celebrities,
CEOs, athletes, academics and government leaders to engage their
constituencies. Please see that attached list of 25 artists.
"More than 100 artists are performing at Live Earth and they're
all headliners. That's what it takes to engage billions of people.
We're not just engaging fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop
Dogg, or the Foo Fighters and Faith Hill. We're engaging them and
everyone in between," Wall said. "We've been overwhelmed by the
response from the artist community and are feverishly working out
the logistics for all of the bands that want to be involved. Today
we are announcing just the first 25 and will soon be announcing even
more headliners who, for contractual reasons, cannot be announced
today." The campaign's identity is based on SOS, the international
Morse code distress signal: three dots, followed by three dashes,
followed by three dots. SOS is the most urgent, universal message we
have, and SOS will use that signal as a continuous distress call to
prompt individuals, corporations and governments around the world to
respond to our climate crisis with action. "SOS is creating an
unmatched communications platform to take on an unparalleled
crisis," Wall said. "Our message must saturate the globe if we're to
succeed, and we will. In the US, we're partnering with NBC-Universal
and its networks. On satellite radio, we have SIRIUS and XM. In the
UK, we're partnering with the BBC. In Japan, we have a historic
partnership with two broadcast partners. We have already secured
television, Internet and wireless coverage in 120 countries, and the
rest are soon to come."
Wall announced that Live Earth concerts will take place in the
Brazil, Shanghai, Japan, Johannesburg, London, Sydney, and the
Eastern United States.
Live Earth will be broadcast worldwide on MSN, which was the
first sponsor to answer SOS's call. MSN is one of the world's most
popular Internet destinations, and as such will allow the SOS
campaign to have a global reach. MSN has services in over 42 markets
and 21 languages, and more than 465 million people around the world
visit MSN each month. Beginning today, people can go to http://liveearth.msn.com
and begin participating in the global movement, and on 7/7/07, to
watch the Live Earth concerts. Live Earth is being produced by
Control Room, of which Kevin Wall is the CEO. Control Room has
produced and distributed more than 60 concerts since its founding a
year and a half ago featuring Beyoncé, Madonna, Green Day, Dave
Matthews Band, Keith Urban, James Blunt, Snoop Dogg, the Rolling
Stones, among others. Its multi-partner network provides a global
reach for live offerings through broadband, television, digital
movie theatres and mobile phones throughout the U.S. and the world.
Live Earth will implement a new U.S. Green Building
Council standard that will become the model for carbon neutral
concerts and other live events in the future. The standard is being
developed in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council to
create a way for venues to be LEED-approved (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design). |
 Al
Gore
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