BOB GELDOF - CELEBRITIES EYE GLOBAL WARMING SONG

CELEBRITIES EYE GLOBAL WARMING SONG

BOB GELDOF and DURAN DURAN are among 55 celebrities planning a version of MIDNIGHT OIL's hit song BEDS ARE BURNING - in a bid to raise awareness of climate change.
The track is part of a campaign headed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to highlight environmental issues.
Officials at Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum are organising the launch of the song, and forum director Walter Fust says, "If we do not stop the (greenhouse gas) emissions today, global warming will be still be with us in 40 to 50 years."
The track can be downloaded for free when it is released on October 1 (09) and it's hoped it will put pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December (09).
Others who will feature on the recording include heavy metal band Scorpions and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Rockers Midnight Oil, whose former frontman Peter Garrett is now Australia's Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, originally released the song in the 1980s.