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LONDON, Mar 20, 2015 - (ACN Newswire) - The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, will be honoured with the Cannes LionHeart Award at this year's Festival.
Terry Savage, Chairman of Lions Festivals, said that it was "incredibly humbling to be able to give the Cannes LionHeart to a man that had achieved so much, particularly in his devotion to solving the global climate crisis."
Introduced last year, the Cannes LionHeart is an honorary award, presented to an individual who through innovative use of commercial brand power has made a significant and positive difference to people or the planet.
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.'s board of directors. Al Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, where he served eight years. He is the author of a series of bestsellers, the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, as well as the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
During Cannes Lions, Al Gore will also participate in the Cannes Debate with Sir Martin Sorrell on Friday 26 June in the Grand Audi. Their wide-ranging discussion will cover Live Earth: Road to Paris, The Climate Reality Project and the role of communications in political and environmental campaigning.
Al Gore will be presented with the LionHeart at the Cannes Lions Awards Ceremony on Saturday 27 June. Further information about Cannes Lions as well as details on how to be a part of it can be found at www.canneslions.com.
About Vice President Gore
Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.'s board of directors. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."
Contact:
Camilla Lambert
Press & PR Manager
Lions Festivals
Tel: +44-20-3033 4000
E-mail: camillal@lionsfestivals.com
Topic: Trade Show or Conference
Source: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Sectors: Advertising
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