FIFA AND GLOBAL CITIZEN TEAM UP AHEAD OF FIFA
WORLD CUP 26™
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMITS MORE THAN
$500 MILLION FOR VACCINATIONS AND
HUMANITARIAN AID
DENMARK, THE
UNITED KINGDOM, AND SPAIN STEP UP FOR 77 OF THE WORLD'S POOREST
COUNTRIES, AND CALL ON MORE GOVERNMENTS TO DO THE SAME
BRAZIL,
MICRONESIA, AND COLOMBIA AND COMMIT TO PROTECT OCEANS &
FORESTS
GLOBAL CITIZENS TAKE A RECORD 3.4 MILLION
ACTIONS TO DEFEAT POVERTY, DEFEND THE PLANET AND DEMAND
EQUITY
Global Citizen Festival is presented by Citi and Cisco. Major
Partners are Bridgewater Associates, Delta Air Lines, Motsepe
Foundation, PayPal and Venmo, P&G, Verizon and World Wide
Technology; Production Partner Live Nation; Broadcast Partner ABC;
Exclusive US Audio Partner iHeartMedia; and Location Partner New
York City Parks
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NEW
YORK, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2024
Global Citizen Festival campaign has resulted in
$1 billion in commitments to
defeat poverty, defend the planet and demand equity for the world's
most marginalized communities. Central Park played host to a
monumental day of advocacy and action today, where 60,000 global
citizens gathered to hear world leaders, philanthropists, and the
private sector make historic commitments in response to their
advocacy, having taken a record-breaking 3.4 million actions on
Global Citizen's platforms.
Underscored by electrifying performances and appearances from
the biggest names in music and entertainment, the twelfth festival
advanced Global Citizen's mission and saw historic announcements,
including that FIFA and Global Citizen are set to work
together to help end extreme poverty and to improve access to sport
and quality education for children worldwide. The announcement was
made on stage by FIFA President Gianni
Infantino, Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans and Hugh Jackman, with DJ Khaled and
Gayle King also in attendance
at the event. Under the partnership, Global Citizen will produce
the first-ever FIFA World Cup™ final half-time show, which
will be held at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, 19 July 2026.
Additionally, the four-year link-up will include the FIFA Club
World Cup 2025™, a brand-new competition which features 32 clubs
from all six continental confederations that will be held across 11
American cities in 2025. Football fans everywhere will be able to
act with Global Citizen on issues such as ensuring all children
have access to education, to promotions related to earning tickets
to FIFA Club World Cup™ matches. More details on these initiatives
will be announced in the coming months.
As always, after the Festival, if there are any necessary
repairs to the Great Lawn due to the inclement weather experienced,
Global Citizen will pay for the repairs.
Hosted by long-time Global Citizen Ambassador Hugh Jackman, the 2024 Global Citizen
Festival included incredible performances from some of the
world's biggest artists. Benson
Boone opened the show with a powerful set, sending the
crowd wild with his breakout hit, "Beautiful Things", and
Calvin Royal III, Principal
Dancer of American Ballet Theatre, performed a self-choreographed
solo set to "Hallelujah". The man of the moment, Jelly Roll
took the stage, the crowd singing along to his hit "Wild Ones"
featuring a surprise appearance by Jessie Murph. RAYE'S
breathtaking set included "Oscar Winning Tears" and her smash hit
"Escapism". Pacific Island choir This Is Our Home delivered
a moving performance and advocated for countries to endorse the
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Rauw Alejandro's
sizzling set included his hit "Todo De Ti", his new song
'Pasaporte' and he told the crowd, "Now is the time for leaders to
really commit to protect and restore our planet before it's too
late."
In her first ever solo festival performance, global superstar
LISA performed her chart-topper "ROCKSTAR" and treated fans
to a performance of her brand new unreleased track "Moonlit Floor".
ALOK & The Future Is Ancestral highlighted the
urgent need to protect the Amazon rainforest during their set.
Doja Cat lit up the night sky, performing smash hits "Agora
Hills" and "Paint the Town Red", telling the audience "right now,
millions of men, women, and children — in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, the Congo and all across the world are suffering…
I joined forces with Global Citizen to help people in areas of
conflict and crisis, and I know so many of you joined me in taking
action to earn your tickets to be here tonight." Surprising the
crowd with an unforgettable acoustic set were Coldplay's
Chris Martin and
Ed Sheeran who performed
"Yellow" and "Thinking Out Loud". To close the show, Post
Malone brought the house down
with a headline set which featured mega-hits "I Had Some Help",
"Circles", and "Sunflower."
"We are so grateful to this city for letting us call the Great
Lawn home for the last 12 years, and to you – you are the engine of
this movement, said Hugh Evans,
Co-Founder & CEO, Global Citizen Festival. "From calling on
G20 nations to increase their funding to the World Bank to enable
loans for 75 of the world's poorest countries, to advocating to
protect and restore the Amazon, the actions you took to be here
tonight have a huge impact."
The 2024 Global Citizen Festival was broadcast and
streamed to the world on Amazon Music, Amazon Music channel on
Twitch, Apple Music and the Apple TV app, Brut, Facebook,
iHeartRadio, TikTok, Veeps, YouTube, the Global Citizen app and
www.globalcitizen.org. It will also stream on ABC News Live on
Disney+, Hulu, Samsung TV+, Amazon Fire TV devices, Roku, Tubi, and
YouTube.
DEFEAT POVERTY
Since April, Global Citizen has been calling on the G20
countries to significantly increase their support for IDA – the
World Bank's fund dedicated to defeating poverty in 77 of the
world's lowest-income countries – in order to mobilize more than
$120 billion at the IDA21
replenishment this December. During the Festival campaign,
Denmark pledged $491 million to IDA, a substantial 40 percent
increase over its previous contribution. Denmark's Minister of Finance, Nicolai Wammen, and actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau highlighted the pledge on
stage and thanked Global Citizen for their actions.
"Hello New York! Global Citizens! We have heard your voices!"
said Nicolai Wammen, Denmark's Minister for Finance. "That is
why we intend to provide nearly 500 million
dollars. That is an increase in Denmark's contributions by 40 percent!" During
his remarks He also stressed: "African leaders have called for the
need to support IDA. And asked the international community to
ensure that it is fully funded.
Spain and the United Kingdom also committed to increasing
their contributions to IDA, with their formal contribution to be
determined in the coming months. Denmark's early pledge is particularly
impactful as the country will assume the Presidency of the European
Union in July 2025, sending a strong
message to other EU nations that investments in international
development must be a priority.
These commitments set the stage for the Economic Development
Assembly: Advancing Africa's Future, taking place on
October 9 and 10 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, hosted by Global
Citizen in partnership with Bridgewater Associates, Harith General
Partners, and the Government of Côte d'Ivoire. Focused on
mobilizing significant investments for the IDA21 replenishment, the
assembly will convene Heads of State, finance ministers, private
sector leaders, Multilateral Development Banks and civil society to
address and dismantle development barriers across Africa, setting the continent's trajectory for
equitable and sustainable growth.
DEFEND THE PLANET
Governor Helder Barbalho of
Para State in Brazil returned
to the Global Citizen stage for the third time to announce new
progress on existing commitments, with more than 500,000 hectares
of the Brazilian Amazon newly protected and in addition, said that
200,000 hectares of regained indigenous lands will be reforested
and returned. Brazil's Minister
of Indigenous Peoples Sônia Guajajara committed to removing
illegal loggers, miners and invading farmers from indigenous
territories in Brazil by
COP30, which will take place in Para
State in November 2025.
Colombia's Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and
Sustainable Development, addressed the Global Citizen Festival
audience via video message to share that the country has taken key
steps forward towards halting fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon.
She announced that Colombia would
be formalizing new restrictions on future oil and gas extraction
projects in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under
the Paris Agreement and will convene the first ever dialogue
between all Amazon nations to discuss activities regarding fossil
fuels in the region
The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty offers a global
framework to halt the expansion of new coal, oil, and gas projects
while accelerating a just transition to renewable energy. In the
week leading into the Global Citizen Festival, first former UN
Secretary-General His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon made history
during the Global Citizen NOW Health and Climate Sessions by
publicly endorsing the treaty, which is backed by 14 nations,
hundreds of elected officials, over 100 cities and subnational
governments, and thousands of scientists and academics. Global
Citizen Prize winner and climate champion, Brianna Fruean, highlighted that during the 2024
Festival campaign, Micronesia
officially joined the coalition of countries advocating for the
treaty, further reinforcing the global momentum building behind
this movement.
DEMAND EQUITY
During the 2024 Global Citizen Festival, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European
Commission, announced a $290 million
commitment to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – a significant increase –
over the next two years, along with $240
million in humanitarian aid to address food security,
reinforcing the EU's leadership in global health and humanitarian
efforts.
"Dear friends, your energy gives us strength to make the world a
better place. Your commitment keeps us going. Thank you,
New York and keep it up!" said
Ursula von der Leyen, President
of the European Commission.
Tony Robbins announced 10 billion
more meals would be distributed towards his 100 Billion Meals
Challenge goal through partnerships with organizations including
Hatch for Hunger, Feed My Starving Children, and the National Pasta
Association. He also pledged 55,000 metric tons of fertilizer would
be donated to support one million smallholder farmers across the
global south and enable low-income communities to grow their own
food, and further strengthen both local and international food
security.
Other commitments included the Government of Germany committing €15 million to the Alliance
for Feminist Movements to advance gender equality across
Africa. Malta pledged €30,000 to the WHO primarily to
support operations in flood-affected Yemen. Additionally, the Adobe Foundation
pledged $500,000 to Outright
International to support LGBTQ+ rights worldwide, announced by
former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna
Marin and Outright's Executive Director Maria Sjödin.
The Global Citizen Festival is presented by Citi and Cisco.
Major Partners are Bridgewater Associates, Delta Air Lines, Motsepe
Foundation, PayPal and Venmo, P&G, Verizon and World Wide
Technology; Production Partner Live Nation; Broadcast Partner ABC;
Exclusive US Audio Partner iHeartMedia; and Location Partner New
York City Parks. The 2024 Global Citizen Festival is produced by
Emmy Award winning production companies Done and Dusted and
Diversified Production Services.
Global Citizen is grateful for the support of leading media
companies including: AIM Group, Atmosphere TV, Bella Naija,
Billboard, Branded Cities, Brut, Captivate, Clear Channel Outdoor,
Digital Mobile Media, EIB Network, Grocery TV, GSTV, iHeartMedia,
Interstate Outdoor, OkayAfrica, MX Location, New Tradition, Orange
Barrel Media, OUTFRONT Media, Penske Media, Rolling Stone, Seen
Media, TimesLIVE, TouchTunes, Trooh Media, Vanguard, Vox Media, and
The Wall Street Journal, Zikoko; and the support of in-kind
partners Carbone Fine Food, Impossible Foods and Tony's
Chocolonely.
For more information visit globalcitizenfestival.com, download
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