Al Gore

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By Debbie Papadakis
debbiedepapadakis@yahoo.com
 

More than 100 artists will take part in a global "Live Earth" concert on June 18 to galvanise demands for climate action, former US vice president Al Gore said Jan. 21.
      
"We are going to have one event all over the world on all seven continents," he announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.