Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced a new Live Earth concert, coming eight years after the initial event in 2007, which featured performances from The Police, Madonna, Metallica, and more. With creative director Pharrell Williams and producer David Wall on hand to announce and speak about the event, Live Earth 2015 will feature more than one hundred artists performing in Paris, New York, Brazil, South Africa, China and Australia (and one band in Antarctica).
Gore is looking to pressure world leaders to accept and agree to a new climate accord at the United Nations climate talks in Paris in December. According to The Guardian, the global concert will take place on June 18th, and “The European leg of the event will take place in Paris, ahead of the 2015 UN climate change conference in the French capital, scheduled for December. The organisers say that 102 broadcasters have so far signed up to carry the event.”
Pharrell went on to say, “Instead of just having people perform, we literally are going to have humanity harmonise all at once.”