Beds Are Burning (Dry Riverbed Version)

Beds Are Burning (Dry Riverbed Version)

Various Artists (Ft. Bob Geldof, Brazilian Girls, Desmond Tutu, Jamie Cullum, Klaus Meine, Marion Cotillard, Mark Ronson, Milla Jovovich, Mélanie Laurent, Scorpions, Serena Ryder, Simon Le Bon, Tyson Ritter, Yannick Noah & Youssou N'Dour)

In 2009, Kofi Annan (

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Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 1938 - 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
) launched ‘Beds Are Burning’, a global musical petition to demand climate justice.

As head of the ‘tck tck tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign, Kofi Annan had launched the world’s first global musical petition. The song seeked to raise public awareness about the impact of climate change, and to apply pressure on world leaders to reach a universal and ambitious deal at the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2009.

The specially re-recorded version of Midnight Oil’s ‘Beds are Burning’ features over sixty artists from around the world. It was released on 2 October 2009.