All-star global concerts come to aid of climate
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Environmental activists led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced plans on Thursday for a worldwide string of pop concerts in July featuring Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers and scores of others to mobilize action to stop global warming.
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Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.
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"The bottom line is that if nothing else, the issue of climate protection was a lot of fun for two billion people for one day"  They rocked the world, but as the clean-up at nine climate change gigs around the globe begins, many wonder if the galaxy of pop stars did much to change it. via Public NewsRoom
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The first of nine concerts across the globe aimed at persuading millions of fans to go green for the environment swung into life in Sydney on Saturday with fiery vocals and a distinctive Australian beat.
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Madonna, Metallica, The Police and Kanye West are among the top names listed to perform at a series of climate change concerts being held around the world starting Saturday in Australia.
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NEW YORK  - This weekend's Live Earth extravaganza aims to bring awareness of global warming as well as music to the world, and NBC Universal wants to make sure its wall-to-wall television coverage doesn't strike a sour note.
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When Saturday's Live Earth concerts bring focus to global warming, millions around the world will hear about Live Earth New York.
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Dozens of pop stars rocked big crowds at Live Earth concerts around the world on Saturday to persuade fans and governments to go green.
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Leaders from the energy industry call for a global carbon market to help tackle climate change.
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Sydney is set to be the first city to hold a Live Earth concert, a global event highlighting climate change.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Along with several large concerts in  the planning stages, artists around the world are putting on  their own benefit shows or donating to funds for the victims of  the recent tsunami in Southern Asia.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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New strategies to confront global warming took center stage in Buenos Aires on Monday, where thousands of environmentalists and government policy-makers gathered for an international conference on climate change.
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LONDON/EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey  - Some of the world's biggest pop stars performed at Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday to persuade fans and governments to go green.
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LONDON, July 7 â They joined forces two years ago to combat global poverty under the flag of Live 8, and rock and pop stars and their myriad fans around the world threw their voices behind a good cause again on Saturday, this time that of raising awareness about global warming through a campaign called Live Earth.
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From Paris to Beijing, Hong Kong to London and beyond, musicians are beating the drum &#151; literally in their case &#151; for victims of the Asian tsunami with special concerts and songs. Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands, creamy-voiced crooners and others are taking up the fund-raising theme.
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Comment is free: Henry Porter: Mass events like the Live Earth concert raise awareness, but if we are going to combat climate change, personal action is vital.