WPP chief Martin Sorrell and former Vice President Al Gore will be featured in the Cannes Debate on June 26 at the creativity festive.
They will discuss the "Live Earth: Road to Paris" campaign to demand environmental accountability from world leaders and a binding agreement on climate change at the UN environmental conference set for the French capital in December.
Gore, singer Pharrell Williams and producer Kevin Hall unveiled the project at the 2015 Davos World Forum to collect 1B signatures in support of the climate change treaty.
With Sorrell, Gore will talk about the importance of communication in green and political campaigns.
The politico also will scoop up the Cannes Lionheart award for his role in highlighting the global warming crisis.
Gore wrote "Earth in the Balance," "An Inconvenient Truth," "The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" and "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change."
He earned the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for ""informing thworld of the dangers posed by climate change."
A focus on all the ways that greenhouse gases are created, not just from fossil fuels, marks the evolution from clean energy and clean tech to climate tech, according to Melissa Mahoney from V2 Communications.
Kristin Wilson-Palmer, who has been a senior VP in Edelman’s Washington, DC office since 2021, joins the Natural Resources Defense Council as chief communications officer.
Educating the next generation to the facts and science surrounding the climate crisis.
Melanie Janin, who was executive VP at Weber Shandwick, has joined Conservation International as chief communications & marketing officer.
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