Live Earth show to help light homes with solar energy

India will host the next Live Earth concert to raise funds for lighting homes with solar energy in places where people do not have access to electricity, organisers said.

The December event will see U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Bollywood’s biggest superstar, Amitabh Bachchan share the stage, and is described by organisers as one of the biggest events held in India.
The concert will be held in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Dec. 7, Live Earth founder Kevin Wall said in Mumbai.

“(Former U.S. Vice President) Al Gore asked me whether we could do this in India, and I said yes,” Wall told Reuters in Mumbai. “This is going to be huge.”

The proceeds from the concert will go to the “Light A Billion Lives campaign,” supported by Nobel Prize-winner Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nation’s Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Reuters