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DJ Snake and Ed Sheeran in Paris, Coldplay and Jennifer Lopez in New York sing to save the planet

A series of concerts are given around the world to raise awareness of issues of climate change and poverty. Christine and the Queens and Angélique Kidjo will perform on September 25 at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

The urgency to act, more than ever in the face of global warming concluded the last report of the IPCC experts on Monday. An injunction to act which will be relayed to the four corners of the world by a myriad of artists. Ed Sheeran and DJ Snake in Paris, Coldplay and Billie Eilish in New York and Femi Kuti in Lagos are the headliners of the concerts events for the planet planned for September 25 by the NGO Global Citizen.

On the Champ-de-Mars, in Paris, Black Eyed Peas, Christine and the Queens, Doja Cat, HER and Angélique Kidjo as guest star are also announced, according to the press release from the organizers released on Tuesday, who hope for 20,000 spectators in the French capital. . A series of concerts organized as part of Global Citizen Live “shows and events filmed on six continents to rally the world around the defense of the planet and the eradication of poverty».

Central Park in New York will also benefit from Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, Meek Mill, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, Burna Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Jon Batiste, Camila Cabello and Lang Lang. Lagos will also host Davido, Tiwa Savage and Made Kuti.

Through this “Global Citizen Live“(GCL), artists will call”governments, corporations and philanthropists to work together to defend the planet and overcome poverty, focusing on the most pressing threats», Explain the organizers. Are thus targeted “climate change, vaccine equity and starvation».

To win tickets to the Paris and New York festivals, fans can “support the campaign and take action on GlobalCitizenLive.orgThrough the Global Citizen Rewards program. 7,050 pairs of tickets, or a total of at least 14,100 free tickets, will be put into play for the Champ de Mars concert. These concert events will be broadcast for 24 hours on all continents on September 25 (on ABC, ABC News Live, BBC, FX, iHeartRadio, Hulu, YouTube, TIME, Twitter, among others).

Other locations and performances are to be unveiled at a later date. Rio de Janeiro, London, Seoul, Los Angeles and Sydney are all in the loop. The list of other artists likely to perform live (or be filmed ahead of time) is impressive with Metallica, The Weeknd, Andrea Bocelli, BTS, Duran Duran, Green Day, Lorde, Rag’n’Bone Man or again Ricky Martin.

In Lagos, the event should have a “limited capacity to celebrate Nigerians working on the front lines in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic“. The show will be like this “filmed in advance with fully vaccinated audience“. In Paris, the health pass will be required. In New York, participants will “be fully vaccinated no later than two weeks before the event»(Or present a negative PCR test carried out in the 72 hours preceding), with obligatory wearing of the mask.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, joined “to calls launched by Global Citizen“To denounce a”blatant inequalityFor the vaccination, reads the press release from the GCL organizers.

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