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Climate change is occurring at an alarming rate and has many broad-reaching impacts on human health, the economy, and the stability of the natural environment. Increased emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat and block it from escaping the atmosphere drive significant global disruption to climate systems as we know them. Low-income, indigenous, and communities of color are already bearing the brunt of climate change and are disproportionately on the front lines of environmental disasters. A healthy planet is not an option — it is a necessity.

When life around the world returns to normal, our world cannot return to business-as-usual. We have the ability to make a difference in every industry, but that can only happen when we work together. Join EARTHDAY.ORG to Restore Our Earth as we come together to make clear that climate action and restoration cannot wait. Restore Our Earth focuses on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. In this way, the campaign rejects the notion that mitigation or adaptation are the only ways to address climate change.

Restore Our Earth encompasses goals and actions including reforestation, regenerative agriculture and sustainable food, plastic cleanups, climate literacy, and citizen science. From capturing carbon and supporting the health and resilience of communities, to advocating for compulsory, assessed climate education, we have the ability to make lasting changes.

We need Pollinators to help Restore Our Earth.

More than 1 billion people in 192 countries now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. Today, I invite you to be a part of Earth Day and to help further climate action across the globe. 

Restoration is imperative to fighting climate change and making the Earth a safer, healthier, and more equitable place to live. It’s time to step up. It’s time to make a change. 

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Earth Day Live 2021

Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth will be streamed live at 12PM ET on April 22 via earthday‍.org, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and GEM-TV.

Global Leaders, Activists, Actors and Musicians Join EARTHDAY‍.ORG’s Second-Annual “Earth Day Live:

Restore Our Earth” Digital Livestream Event

To spur climate action and bring awareness to humanity’s greatest existential threat, EARTHDAY‍.ORG will bring together activists, educators, researchers, musicians, artists, influencers and more for its second-annual Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth digital livestream event. Parallel to the Biden Administration’s global climate summit, the event will feature panel discussions, films, and special musical performances that explore the natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. 

Earth Day 2021 is a critical stepping stone to spur climate action worldwide. Building on the incredible success of last year’s event which drew over 8.5 million viewers, Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth will be streamed live at 12PM ET on April 22 via earthday‍.org, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and GEM-TV.

Additionally, TED Countdown is joining forces with EARTHDAY‍.ORG, creating several original TED Talks to premiere during the livestream and providing additional top-tier climate content by leaders in the space. TED will also engage with Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth across social and digital media to further amplify our shared messages.

“At the heart of Earth Day’s 2021 theme, Restore Our Earth, is optimism, a critically needed sentiment in a world ravaged by both climate change and the pandemic. Restoring Our Earth is about solving climate change through the world’s natural systems, such as regenerative agriculture practices and reforestation, as well as through existing and safe technologies. Restoring our planet will also require the commitment of our world’s leaders to support climate literacy and civic skill building so that we can create a global engaged and active citizenry, a green consumer movement, and an economy that is just and equitable across all countries and across all demographics,” said Kathleen Rogers, EARTHDAY‍.ORG President.

The initial announcement of incredible participants for this year’s event includes:

AJR, Band

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco

Alexandria Villasenor, Founder of Earth Uprising and Youth Climate Activist

Amita N. Vyas, PhD, MHS, Professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health

Andrea Illy, Chairman of illycaffè

Brothers Osborne and Lucie Silvas, Musicians

Caue Suplicy, Founder and Chairman of Barnana

Chris Packham, Award-Winning Conservationist, Photographer and Author

Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA)

Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director, Regenerative Organic Certified

Gabriel Quijandría, Minister of the Environment, Peru

Grace Potter, Musician

Haldis Holst, Deputy General Secretary of Education International

Heba Alfarra, United Nations Environment Champion of the Earth for West Asia and Founder of Women in Energy & Environment at MENA Region

Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

James Gaspard, CEO of Biochar Now LLC

Justin Kamine, Co-Founder and Partner of KDC Agriculture and EARTHDAY‍.ORG Board Member 

Kristen Bell, Actress and Producer

Licypriya Kangujam, 9-year-old Climate Activist & Founder of The Child Movement

Marianne Williamson, Author

Mary Steenburgen, Actor and Musician

Michael S. Regan, EPA Administrator

Dr. Michael Greger, Founder of NutritionFacts.org, Physician, Plant-based diet Advocate

Mike Berners-Lee, Researcher and Writer

Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

His Holiness Pope Francis

Ricky Kej, Grammy® Award Winner

Simon Robson, Award-Winning Animation Director, and Environmental Activist

Stuart Pimm, PhD, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Founder and President of Saving Nature

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty, Risk and Behavioral Scientist

Terry Spahr, Producer of 8 Billion Angels and Executive Director of Earth Overshoot

For more information on Earth Day Live and Earth Day 2021, please visit: https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/ 

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