BLACKPINK to deliver video message for Climate Change Conference in Nov.

연합뉴스 / 2021-10-27 15:07:41

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SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- Girl band BLACKPINK will deliver a video message calling out for take actions to climate changes at “the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference” (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, England, their agency YG Entertainment announced Wednesday.

130 countries will attend this year’s conference which will be held from the 31st of October to Nov. 12 to discuss actions to achieve reduction of green-house gas emmision and the goals of the Pairs Agreement.

The band is acting as the honorary ambassador for COP26.

The honorary ambassador will ask for a better awareness of the climate change problem and for protecting the environment through a video message at a commit conference held by Boris Johnson Prime Minister of U.K. on the 1st and 2nd of November.

The message will contain appeals to keep the 2015 Paris Agreement and not to miss the opportunity opened by COP26.

Earlier, the band voiced that we should protect the Earth through a video with the British Embassy in Korea in December 2020, and has recently encouraged to strive to improve our perceptions of climate change through a video message on “Dear Earth,” a YouTube event.

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