One Direction has released a video asking its fans to make their voice heard over climate change ahead of the climate change summit in Paris this year.
Launching action/1D, Harry Styles explained that 2015 “is a year like no other” thanks to “two historic summits where world leaders will make important decisions that affect important human issues like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change”.
The band has asked its fans to join it in putting pressure on world leaders to enact change. The action/1D campaign forms part of the wider action/2015 campaign which is calling on leaders to accelerate the transition to 100% renewable energy in order to democratise and decarbonise energy generation.
The organisation estimates that nearly one billion people will face a life of “extreme poverty if leaders duck key decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change due to be taken at two crucial summits in New York and Paris later this year”.
During the Budget 2015 announcement on Wednesday, the chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne reiterated that the UK government would “push for a global climate deal later this year that keeps the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees firmly within reach”.
One Direction are not the only celebrities to back the action/2015 project, with Bono, Ben Affleck and Bill Gates all lending their support to the push.
