Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth Digital Livestream Boasts
Lineup of Activists, Global Leaders, Musicians, Influencers, and
Educators
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- From April 20-22, Earth Uprising, Hip Hop Caucus,
Education International, and EARTHDAY.ORG are producing three days
of climate action events to bring awareness to humanity's greatest
existential threat and raise ambition across numerous environmental
issues.
Tomorrow, April 20 at 2:30PM ET, Earth Uprising, in collaboration with
hundreds of youth climate activists, will present the "Youth Speaks
Summit 2021." The global youth summit will consist of panels,
speeches, discussions, and special messages with today's youth
climate activists including Greta
Thunberg, Alexandria Villaseñor, Licypriya Kangujam, Xiye
Bastida, Jamie Margolin, and Vanessa
Nakate. The four-hour digital summit will address the progress that
has been made on their main issues of concern, including climate
literacy, green jobs, and environmental justice. For a full list of
demands that they are seeking to be addressed at the Biden
Administration's climate summit and more information, please visit:
https://earthuprising.org/YouthSpeaks2021/
On April 20 at 7PM ET, the Hip Hop Caucus and its partners will
present the "We Shall Breathe" virtual summit. The event will bring
together some of the most powerful, multigenerational Black,
Indigenous and Brown leaders working on
pollution, the pandemic, police brutality, poverty and policy to
affirm to the Biden Administration that racial justice and climate
justice solutions must come from frontline and BIPOC communities.
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., Founder
& President of Hip Hop Caucus; Emerald
Garner, Daughter of Eric
Garner, We Can't Breathe Inc.; Elizabeth Yeampierre, Climate Justice Alliance
and UPROSE; Chase Iron Eyes, Indigenous Peoples Movement; and many
other important voices will be in attendance. For a full list of
demands, please visit: https://weshallbreathe.com/demands/
On April 21 from 1pm-4pm CEST, Education International will lead
the "Teach for the Planet: Global Education Summit." The
multilingual virtual event will feature inspiring teachers, student
leaders, prominent activists, engaged ministers, and examples from
every continent focused on the crucial role that educators and
their unions play in combating climate change and why we need
transformative climate education now. The event will launch
Education International's Manifesto for Quality Climate Change
Education for All and its Teach for the Planet global campaign
leading up to COP26. The event will
include interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.teach4theplanet.org
EARTH DAY, APRIL 22
For
the 51st Earth Day, EARTHDAY.ORG has gathered a diverse lineup of
activists, global leaders, musicians, educators, industry leaders,
influencers and artists from around the world for the second annual
digital livestream event. Discussions, performances, presentations
and films will explore the innovative and powerful solutions to
Restore Our Earth.
Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth will be streamed
live at 12PM ET on April 22 via earthday.org, Facebook (and via
Facebook's Climate Science Information Center), Twitter, Twitch,
YouTube, and GEM-TV. The virtual event will be hosted by Alexandria
Villaseñor, Founder of Earth Uprising and Youth Climate Activist,
and Milana Vayntrub, Actress,
Comedian, Writer, Director. For more information on Earth Day Live
and Earth Day 2021, please visit:
https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/
As a part of EARTHDAY.ORG's partnership with TED Countdown, the
digital event will include three original TED Countdown Talks by
John Marshall, Cory Combs and Rumaitha Al Busaidi.
Additionally, the program will feature segments from Education
International's "Teach for the Planet: Global Education Summit,"
Hip Hop Caucus' "We Shall Breathe" virtual summit, as well as Earth
Uprising's "Youth Speaks Summit."
"For over half a century, hundreds of millions of people from
around the globe have taken political and volunteer action on Earth
Day, yet multiple accelerating environmental and health crises
continue to envelop our planet, impacting everyone but particularly
the poor and vulnerable who live among us. On behalf of the one
billion people who will take part in Earth Day this year, even in
the midst of a second year of the pandemic, we demand that the
talking stop and that governments and corporations commit to
net-zero emissions by 2040 with an interim goal of cutting
emissions in half by 2030. Anything less will deprive our children
of their right to inherit a habitable planet," said Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG.
This year's powerful lineup includes:
- AJR, Band
- His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco
- Alexandria Villaseñor, Founder of Earth Uprising and Youth
Climate Activist
- Amita N. Vyas, PhD, MHS,
Professor at George Washington
University Milken Institute School of Public Health and
Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child
Health
- Andrea Illy, Chairman of
illycaffè
- Andrei Cherny, CEO,
Aspiration
- Ann Veneman, Former Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Bill McKibben, Co-Founder,
350.org and Scholar-in-residence, Middlebury
College
- Brothers Osborne and Lucie
Silvas, Musicians
- Caue Suplicy, Founder and Chairman of Barnana
- Chris Packham, Award-Winning
Conservationist, Photographer and Author
- Clarence E. Anthony, CEO and
Executive Director of the National League of Cities
- Ed Begley, Jr., Actor,
Environmentalist, Global Advisory Committee Member
- Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive
Director, Regenerative Organic Certified
- Florence Blondel, Journalist,
Population & Development Expert and Activist
- Mayor Frank Cownie of
Des Moines, Iowa and President of
ICLEI
- Gabriel Quijandría, Minister of the Environment, Peru
- Gina McCarthy, White House
National Climate Advisor
- Grace Potter, Musician
- Greta Thunberg, Youth Climate
Activist
- Haldis Holst, Deputy General
Secretary of Education International
- Heba Alfarra, United Nations
Environment Champion of the Earth for West Asia and Founder of Women in Energy &
Environment at MENA Region
- Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification
- James Gaspard, CEO of Biochar
Now LLC
- John Kerry, United States
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
- Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive
Director of Project Drawdown
- Sir José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996), Former
President & Prime Minister of Timor-Leste
- Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, Coordinator of the Sector of
Ecology and Creation at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting
Integral Human Development
- Justin Kamine, Co-Founder and
Partner of KDC Agriculture and EARTHDAY.ORG Board Member
- Dame Karen Pierce, British
Ambassador to the United
States
- Kate Williams, CEO, 1% For The
Planet
- Kathleen Rogers, President,
EARTHDAY.ORG
- Mayor Katja Dörner, City of
Bonn, Germany
- Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms,
Atlanta, Georgia
- Kevin O'Leary, Venture
Capitalist
- Kristen Bell, Actress and
Producer
- Licypriya Kangujam, 9-year-old Climate Activist & Founder
of The Child Movement
- Lucas Niepold, Incoming Student
at Bristol Community College Studying
Offshore Wind Power Technology
- The Mahers Family
- Marianne Williamson, Author
- Mary Steenburgen, Actor and
Musician
- Michael S. Regan, United States
EPA Administrator
- Dr. Michael Greger, Founder of
NutritionFacts.org, Physician, Plant-based diet Advocate
- Mike Berners-Lee, Researcher and
Writer
- Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Arctic Angel
and Climate Justice Activist
- Nick Clegg, VP, Global Affairs
& Communications, Facebook
- Patricia Espinosa, Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change
- Patrizio Bianchi, Minister of
Public Education, Italy
- Pattie Gonia (Wyn Wiley), Intersectional Environmentalist
& Advocate
- His Holiness Pope Francis
- Ricky Kej, Grammy® Award Winner
- Sally Ranney, President and
Co-Founder of Global Choices, President of the American Renewable
Energy Institute, and Board Member, National Wildlife
Federation
- Simon Robson, Award-Winning
Animation Director, and Environmental Activist
- Stuart Pimm, PhD, Doris Duke
Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke
University's Nicholas School
of the Environment and Founder and President of Saving Nature
- Dr. Sweta Chakraborty, Risk and
Behavioral Scientist
- Terry Spahr, Producer of 8
Billion Angels and Executive Director of Earth Overshoot
- Tom Lovejoy, "Godfather of
Biodiversity," President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a
Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and Environmental
Science and Policy Professor at George Mason
University
- Tom Steyer, NextGen America
Founder
- Mayor Victoria Woodards,
Tacoma, Washington
- Xiye Bastida, Arctic Angel, Co-Founder of the Re-Earth
Initiative, and Fridays For Future Organizer
For more information on Earth Day Live and Earth Day 2021,
please visit: https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/
EARTHDAY.ORG would like to thank Aspiration, Barnana, Biochar
Now LLC, Climeworks, Delos, Keep America Beautiful, Pure ETCR,
skpgen.com, and 8 Billion Angels for their support.
About EARTHDAY.ORG:
EARTHDAY.ORG's mission is to
diversify, educate, and activate the environmental movement
worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day (1970), EARTHDAY.ORG
is the world's largest recruiter to the environmental movement,
working with more than 50,000 partners in nearly 192 countries to
build environmental democracy. More than 1 billion people now
participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the
largest civic observance in the world. Learn more at
earthday.org.