COP21/CMP11, December 2015
Dear Executive Secretary Figueres and COP 21 President, Minister Fabius,
We, the creative community as represented by the signatories below, ask all those responsible for negotiating the post 2020 climate change framework to agree an ambitious and inspiring international agreement.
The creative community – design, advertising, broadcasting, publishing, film, gaming, fashion, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, galleries and museums – can make a unique contribution to the global sustainability challenge. Collectively we shape not just our material world, but our conceptual world too, including the values that underpin our lives. The creative industries generate wealth and employment but we also innovate, we shape and express cultural values, influencing how people feel and the choices they make: as such we have huge potential to prompt, and reinforce, positive and sustainable change.
We are deeply concerned that our global economic and industrial systems are accelerating rates of extinction, desertification and soil depletion, degrading ecosystems, acidifying and littering our rivers and oceans, and resulting in a relentless rise in greenhouse gas emissions driving irreversible climate change. In short, we are overwhelming the planet’s life support systems. The outcomes of COP21 and the political decisions taken over the next months will determine many of the long-term conditions that will affect us today and for many generations to come.
In combining our collective strengths the creative community will amplify your commitments to positive change and strengthen the implementation of good policy decisions you make now. An international policy framework with a long term and realistic goal of limiting greenhouse gas emissions below 2 degrees of warming will give us the confidence to deploy our considerable energy towards a sustainable and equitable future. A healthy creative community relies on collaboration. Using this as a first principle for action we will:
- Take action ourselves to make our businesses and our industries more sustainable, actively managing our impacts.
- Speak out to our audiences and customers, using our creative voices to affect the public narrative and create social consensus for action on climate change and environmental degradation.
- Work together to influence and support policy makers who have the capacity to accelerate positive change, to make the right decisions.
- Take a leadership role with a cultural mandate for action, which exceeds the commitments of governments.
- Do what we do best and use our creativity and our collaborative culture to help find, and scale, solutions to global environmental challenges.
We ask you to agree to a comprehensive, binding international framework agreement on greenhouse gas emissions reductions, with mechanisms to assess, review and revise commitments over the long term.
We ask for:
- An ambitious commitment to climate action, starting now, that will limit future global warming to below 2.0°C (3.6 °F) relative to pre-industrial levels
- A legally robust and accountable global climate governance framework and implementation strategy that we will be able to support
- Realistic delivery timetables which account for the long term and which enable us to invest in future-focused and collaborative creative practice
- Financial mechanisms to stimulate extensive infrastructure for poorer nations to support them in achieving their reduction commitments while permitting equitable development
- Significant investment in low carbon infrastructures which we can champion and deploy
- Alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals
We understand the gravity of climate change and the historic opportunity represented by COP21. We will come together and intensify our efforts, but we need you to give us confidence in a sustainable future, to share our ambition, and recognize our capacity to strengthen your leadership.
We Must, We Can, and together We Will act on climate change.
Read the COP21 Creative Manifesto Briefing Notes
List of Signatories
| Wil-Dog Abers, Musician Ozomatli | |
| | Roy Ackerman, MD Pulse Films |
| | Ackroyd and Harvey, Artists |
| | Sidsel Agensø, Actress |
| | Damon Albarn, Musician |
| | Karina Albers, CEO Kontent Real Films |
| | Sian Alexander, CEO Lyric Hammersmith |
| | Yu-Lan van Alphen, Programme Manager DOEN Foundation |
| | Anastacia, Musician |
| | Ian Anderson, Musician Jethro Tull |
| | Anggun, Musician |
| | Lisa Armstrong, Fashion Director The Daily Telegraph |
| | ATM, Street Artist |
| | Margaret Atwood, Writer |
| | Steve Backshall, Writer/Television Presenter |
| | Bettina Bakdal, Fashion Designer |
| | Maria Balshaw CBE, Director Whitworth, Manchester/City Museums |
| | Emma Banks, Music Agent |
| | Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, Singer |
| | Courtney Barnett, Musician |
| | Angus Baskerville, 13 Artists |
| | Neil Bartlett, Author/Director |
| | Blick Bassy, Musician |
| | Alex Beard, CEO Royal Opera House |
| | Simon Beaufoy, Screenwriter |
| | Louise Beck, Artistic Director Opera Nord/Board Danish Agency of Culture |
| | Momtaz Begum, Singer/MP Bangladesh |
| | Dominique Behan, Reseau Eco-evenement |
| | Ulises Bella, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Melvin Benn, MD Festival Republic |
| | Laura Bergmann, Musician The Family Crest |
| | Boris Berlin, Designer |
| | Amanda Berry OBE, CEO Bafta |
| | Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, Musician |
| | Bidisha, Writer/Broadcaster |
| | Andrew Bird, Musician |
| | Ditte Maria Bjerg, Artistic Director Global Stories/Chair Committee for Performing Arts, Danish Art Council |
| | Björk, Musician |
| | Matt Black, Musician Coldcut |
| | Tom Blankenship, Musician My Morning Jacket |
| | Tamsin Blanchard, Journalist |
| | Bon Iver, Group |
| | Kamila Boudova, Designer |
| | David Robert (Bowie) Jones, Musician |
| | Stéphane Braunschweig, Artistic Director Theatre National La Colline |
| | Zowie Broach, Designer Boudicca |
| | Carl Broemel, Musician My Morning Jacket |
| | Simon Broughton, Editor-in-Chief Songlines |
| | Paul Brown, Head of Props Glyndebourne |
| 50. | Alex Bruford, Partner ATC Live |
| | Pilani Bubu, Musician |
| | David Buckland, Artist/Founder Cape Farewell |
| | Else Marie Bukdahl, Dphil. |
| | Paul Burger, CEO Soho Artists |
| | Simon Burstein, CEO Browns |
| | Robert Butler, Journalist |
| | Burak Cakmak |
| | S. Carey, Musician Bon Iver |
| | Orsola de Castro, Co-Founder Fashion Revolution |
| | Carolina Caycedo, Artivist Rios Vivos Colombia |
| | Rob Challice, Coda Agency |
| | Tom Chauncey, Agent Partisan Arts |
| | Elaine Chia, Director International Signature Projects Australia Council for the Arts |
| | Adam Chodzko, Artist |
| | Caryl Churchill, Playwright |
| | Danny Cohen, Director of Television BBC |
| | Coldplay - Guy Berryman, Musician |
| | Coldplay - Jonny Buckland, Musician |
| | Coldplay - Will Champion, Musician |
| | Coldplay - Chris Martin, Musician |
| | Lily Cole, Model |
| | Pandora Colin, Actress |
| | Paule Constable, Lighting Designer |
| | Steve Coogan, Actor |
| | Dominic Cooke, Theatre Director |
| | Lionel Copley, Designer |
| | Frances Corner OBE, Head London College of Fashion, PVC University of the Arts |
| | Chris Cotton, CEO Royal Albert Hall |
| | Liliana Coutinho, Curator Teatro Maria Matos/Imagine 2020 |
| | Carrie Cracknell, Theatre Director |
| | Michaela Crimmin, Art in the Public Domain |
| | Deborah Curtis, Creative Director |
| | Dessa Darling, Musician |
| | Lucy Davies, Executive Producer Royal Court |
| | Siobhan Davies, Choreographer/Dancer |
| | Kerry Dean, Fashion Photographer |
| | Charles Deull, Broadway Green Alliance |
| | Graham Devlin CBE |
| | Dido, Musician |
| | Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo Soprano |
| | Paul Dillinger, Vice President Innovation Levi Strauss |
| | Collette Dinnigan, Fashion Designer |
| | Jo Dipple, CEO UK Music |
| | Sir Michael Dixon, Director Natural History Museum |
| | Diane Dodd, Director IGCAT |
| | Ged Doherty, Chairman BPI |
| | Jonathan Dove, Composer |
| | Jane Dyball, CEO MPA Group |
| | Jonas Eder-Hansen, Danish Fashion Institute |
| 100. | Olafur Eliasson, Artist |
| | Chen Feng, Co-founder Natur Wuhan |
| | Rose Fenton, CEO Free Word |
| | Colin Firth, Actor |
| | Livia Firth, Creative Director Eco Age Consultancy |
| | Silja Fischer, Secretary General International Music Council |
| | Dan Fogler, Actor |
| | Marie Fol, Programme Manager Dutch Culture/TransArtists |
| | Aminatta Forna, Writer |
| | Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Founders Translocal Institute |
| | Caryn Franklin, Fashion Journalist and Broadcaster |
| | Kyle Frenette, Manager Middle West Management |
| | Bella Freud, Designer |
| | Stephen Fry, Actor/Broadcaster/Writer |
| | Alastair Fuad-Luke, Designer |
| | John Fulljames, Associate Director Royal Opera House |
| | Merrill Garbus, Musician Tune-Yards |
| | Adam Gardner, Musician Guster/Founder Reverb |
| | Sevan Garo, Founder Garogosi |
| | Guy Garvey, Musician |
| | Lauranne Germond, Director COAL |
| | Bobby Gillespie, Musician Primal Scream |
| | Ed Gillespie, Co-founder, Futerra |
| | Odie Gilbert, Stylist |
| | David Gilmour, Musician |
| | Peter Gingold, Founder Tipping Point |
| | Martin Glover, Musician/Producer Youth |
| | Simon Green, Musician Bonobo |
| | Ian Grenfell, Quietus Management |
| | Jay Griffiths, Writer |
| | Lynda Grose, Fashion Designer |
| | Patrick Gyger, Director, Lieu Unique |
| | Amir Haddad, Theatre Director |
| | Patrick Hallahan, Musician My Morning Jacket |
| | Katharine Hamnett, Fashion Designer |
| | Alex Hartley, Artist |
| | Richard Hawley, Actor |
| | Christopher Haydon, Artistic Director Gate Theatre |
| | Rachel Healy, Artistic Director Adelaide Festival |
| | Andy Heath, Beggars Group/Chair UK Music |
| | Caspar Henderson, Writer |
| | Sean Holmes, Artistic Director Lyric Hammersmith |
| | Kasper Holten, Director of Opera Royal Opera House |
| | Robert Horsfall, Lawyer |
| | Tansy Hoskins, Author |
| | Nan van Houte, Secretary General IETM |
| | Sue Hoyle, CEO Clore Leadership |
| | Marion Hume, Fashion Journalist |
| | Iris Hung, MD Bamboo Curtain Studio |
| | Chrissie Hynde, Musician |
| 150. | Sir Nicholas Hytner, Co-Founder, London Theatre Company/Film/Theatre Director |
| | Bez Idakula, Musician |
| | Chase Igliori, Manager Middle West Management |
| | Singh Intrachooto, Design Principal Osisu |
| | Professor Tim Jackson, Poet/Playwright/Academic |
| | Bel Jacobs, Fashion Journalist |
| | Jim James, Musician My Morning Jacket |
| | Jack Johnson, Musician |
| | Ilse Joliet, Artist and Coordinator Imagine 2020 |
| | Dylan Jones, Editor-in-Chief GQ |
| | Patrick Jordan, Manager Red Light Management |
| | David Joseph, Chairman and CEO Universal Music UK |
| | David Jubb, Artistic Director Battersea Arts Centre |
| | Didier Juillard, Director of Theatre National La Colline |
| | John Kampfner, Creative Industries Federation |
| | Amar Kanwar, Artist/Filmmaker |
| | Prosper Keating, MD 7Post Magazine |
| | Penn Kemp, Poet/Novelist/Playwright |
| | Ulrich Khuon, Artistic Director Deutsches Theater Berlin |
| | Angélique Kidjo, Musician |
| | Juliet Kindersley, Founder Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley Publications |
| | Peter Kindersley, Founder Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley Publications |
| | Morten Kirkskov, Artistic Director Royal Danish Theatre |
| | Marda Kirn, Founding Director EcoArts Connections |
| | Clayton Knight, Musician Odesza |
| | Judith Knight, Director ArtsAdmin |
| | Nevenka Koprivsek, Artistic Director Bunker Institute |
| | Peter Kosminsky, Writer/Director/Producer |
| | Bo Koster, Musician My Morning Jacket |
| | Tania Kovats, Artist |
| | Astrid Krogh, Artist |
| | Marco Kusumawijaya, Director Rujak Centre for Urban Studies |
| | David Lan, Artistic Director Young Vic |
| | Sophia Lapiashvili, Green Art Lab Alliance |
| | Phyllida Law OBE, Actress |
| | Lazerbeak, Musician Doomtree |
| | Debbie Levin, President EMA |
| | David Lewis, COO Effect Partners |
| | Leona Lewis, Singer |
| | Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Director Bertha Philanthropies |
| | William S.W. Lim, Chairman Asian Urban Lab |
| | Craig Logan, Artist Manager Logan Media Entertainment |
| | Juan López-Aranguren, Architect and public artist |
| | Michelle Lowe-Holder, Fashion Designer |
| | Dara Lynch, Director D&AD |
| | Liam McCormick, Musician The Family Crest |
| | Colin McDowell MBE, Fashion Writer |
| | Ian McEwan, Writer |
| | Robert Macfarlane, Writer |
| | Ursula Macfarlane, Director/Producer/Cinematographer |
| 200. | Alistair McGowan, Comedian/Actor |
| | Kate McGrath, Theatre Producer,/Co-Director Founder Fuel |
| | Ian MacKaye, Musician |
| | Darragh McKeon, Writer |
| | Nathan McLay, Founder Future Classic |
| | Sabrina Mahfouz, Poet |
| | Rosemary Mangope, CEO National Arts Council of South Africa |
| | Valeria Marcolin, Co-Director Association Culture et Développement |
| | Korda Marshall, Founder Infectious Music/VP BMG Recordings |
| | Michael Martin, CEO Effect Partners |
| | Penny Martin, Editor-in-Chief The Gentlewoman |
| | Steve Martin, Agent APA |
| | Deborah Meaden, Entrepreneur/Presenter |
| | Natalie Merchant, Musician |
| | Nicholas Merriman, Director Manchester Museum |
| | Aston Merrygold, Musician |
| | Ute Meta Bauer, Founder NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore |
| | Courtney Miller, General Manager Australian Fashion Chamber |
| | Harrison Mills, Musician Odesza |
| | Katie Mitchell, Director |
| | Jon More, Musician Coldcut |
| | Andrew Morgan, Director |
| | Vicki Mortimer, Designer |
| | Jesper Moseholm, Designer |
| | Eric Mouquet, Musician Deep Forest |
| | Dave Moutrey, CEO HOME Manchester |
| | Farai Mpfunya, Founding Trustee Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust |
| | Brenda Munsterman, General Manager Sensation International |
| | Zoya Naskova, Freelance Consultant |
| | Amanda Nevill, CEO BFI |
| | Thandie Newton, Actress |
| | Adam Nicholson, Writer |
| | Vivian Nielsen, Playwright |
| | Alex Noble, Fashion Designer |
| | Rufus Norris, Artistic Director Royal National Theatre |
| | Yoko Ono, Artist/Musician/Peace Activist |
| | Lucy Orta, University of the Arts London |
| | James Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, Musician |
| | Max Osterweis, Fashion Designer |
| | Raúl Pacheco, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Paul Pacifico, on Behalf of Featured Artists Coalition |
| | Mark Padmore, Tenor |
| | Carl Palmer, Musician Emerson Lake and Palmer/Asia/Carl Palmer Trio |
| | Sir Antonio Pappano, Pianist/Conductor/Music Director Royal Opera House |
| | Cornelia Parker, Artist |
| | Tim Parry, Managing Director Big Life |
| | Lluís Pasqual, Artistic Director Teatre Lliure |
| | Michael Pawlyn, Founder Exploration Architecture |
| | Ricardo Peach, Director Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba |
| | Mick Perrin, Director Worldwide |
| 250. | Glen Phillips, Musician Toad/The Wet Sprocket |
| | Bruno Pieters, Fashion Designer |
| | Robert Plant, Musician |
| | Justin 'El Niño' Porée, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Kevin Price, COO Bafta |
| | Heydon Prowse, Satirist/Comedian |
| | Philip Pullman, Writer |
| | Peter Quicke, Ninja Tune |
| | Christopher Raeburn, Fashion Designer |
| | Jonathan Reekie, CEO Somerset House* |
| | John Reid, President of Concerts Live Nation |
| | Damien Rice, Musician |
| | Robin Rimbaud, Musician/Composer Scanner |
| | Timo Rissanen, Fashion Designer |
| | Henry Rollins, Musician |
| | Tanya Ronder, Playwright |
| | David de Rothschild, Ecologist Sculpt the Future Foundation |
| | Caroline Rush, CEO British Fashion Council |
| | David Ryding, Director City of Literature Melbourne |
| | Mark Rylance, Actor |
| | Jay Ryves, Art Director Future Classic |
| | Maibritt Saerens, Actress |
| | Aruna Sairam, Singer US Congressional/Padma Shri Awardee |
| | Larry Sakin, Green Entrepreneur |
| | Shaheen Samad, Singer |
| | Josh Schachter, Photographer |
| | Olivia Sautereau, Collectif 12 |
| | Elisabeth Schweeger, CEO/Artistic Director Academy for Performing Art Baden-Württemberg/President MITOS21 |
| | Jess Search, CEO BRITDOC |
| | Helen Searle, Lawyer |
| | Philip Selway, Musician Radiohead |
| | Graça Seligman, Photographer |
| | Orlando Senna, Film Director |
| | Elif Shafak, Writer |
| | Kamila Shamsie, Writer |
| | Alice Sharp, Artist/Curator |
| | Zakee Shariff, Designer |
| | Jane Shepherdson CBE, CEO Whistles |
| | Margaret Shiu, Founder/Artistic Director Bamboo Curtain Studio |
| | Stefan Siegel, Founder/CEO Not Just A Label |
| | Lucy Siegle, Writer/Broadcaster |
| | Asdrubal Sierra, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Lily Silverton, Features Director Hunger Magazine |
| | Justine Simons OBE, Chair World Cities Culture Forum |
| | Joe Smith, Cultural Commentator |
| | John Smith, General Secretary Musicians’ Union |
| | Paul Smith, Director Oxford University Museum of Natural History History |
| | Carry Somers, Designer/Co-Founder Fashion Revolution |
| | Alistair Spalding CBE, CEO Sadler’s Wells |
| | Dinaz Stafford, Filmmaker |
| 300. | Sóley Stefánsdóttir, Musician |
| | Nick Starr, Co-Founder London Theatre Company |
| | Sting, Musician |
| | Michael Stipe, Musician |
| | Helen Storey MBE, Designer |
| | Duncan Stutterheim, Founder ID&T |
| | Josh Sundquist, Manager Middle West Management |
| | Meera Syal CBE, Actress |
| | Adrian Sykes, Manager |
| | Seth Tabatznik |
| | Iphigenia Taxopoulou, General Secretary MITOS21 |
| | Juergen Teller Fashion Photographer |
| | Neil Tennant, Musician Pet Shop Boys |
| | Martin Terefe, Music Producer |
| | John Thackara |
| | Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp OBE |
| | Emma Thompson, Actress |
| | Alison Tickell, Founder Julie’s Bicycle |
| | Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp OBE, Chief Executive, The Place |
| | John Tiffany, Theatre Director |
| | Harold Tillman CBE |
| | Amon Tobin, Musician |
| | Elisa Toffoli, Songwriter |
| | Steve Tompkins, Architect |
| | Ruth Ben Tovim, Creative Director Encounters Arts |
| | Philip Treacy, Millner |
| | Andreya Triana, Musician |
| | KT Tunstall, Musician |
| | Gavin Turk, Artist |
| | Benjamin Twist, Director Creative Carbon Scotland |
| | Renata Tyszczuk, Artist |
| | Philip Uzo, Music Director |
| | Wally Valdez, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Martijn Van Daalen, Director Mysteryland International |
| | Diana Verde Nieto, CEO Positive Luxury |
| | Carla Visi, Singer |
| | Tanja Vranic, Coordinator HIVOS/Arts Collaboratory |
| | Dubravka Vrgoč, Artistic Director Croatian National Theatre/President ETC |
| | Tony Wadsworth CBE, Chairman Julie’s Bicycle |
| | Alexander Walter, Director WOMEX |
| | Russell Warby, WME Entertainment |
| | Neil Warnock, The Agency Group |
| | Steve Waters, Playwright |
| | Sara Watkins, Musician Nickel Creek |
| | Cilla Ware, TV Drama Director |
| | Christina Wendelboe, Dramaturge |
| | Alison Wenham OBE, CEO AIM |
| | Vivienne Westwood, Designer |
| | Heidi Wiley, General Secretary European Theatre Convention |
| | Tim Wilson, Musician Ivan and Alyosha |
| 350. | Dilys Williams, Designer Sustainable Fashion |
| | Grace Woodward, Fashion Stylist/Presenter |
| | Harry Cory Wright, Photographer |
| | Jiro Yamaguchi, Musician Ozomatli |
| | Thom Yorke, Musician Radiohead |
| | Brian Yost, President, On-Site Products Live Nation |
| | Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey |
| | Madani Younis, Artistic Director Bush Theatre |
| | Young Fathers - Kayus Bankole, Musician |
| | Young Fathers - G Hastings, Musician |
| | Young Fathers - Alloysious Massaquoi, Musician |
| | Ada Zanditon, Fashion Designer |
| | Richard Zijlma, Director, Amsterdam Dance Event |
Julie’s Bicycle would like to thank the many individuals who have helped to bring together this group of signatories especially; Heather Ackroyd, Melvin Benn, Simon Broughton, David Buckland, Paule Constable, Lucy Davies, Rose Fenton, John Fulljames, Peter Gingold, Søren Krogh, David Lewis, Mike Martin, Aaron Matthews, Nick Merriman, James Murtagh-Hopkins, Kevin Price, Tanya Ronder, Larry Sakin, Josh Schachter, Anupama Sekhar, Manitu Szerman, Tony Wadsworth, Selina Webb, Dilys Williams
* Somerset House Trust including:
Somerset House Studios
Somerset House Exchange
and residents:
7 Wonder
Achill Management
Animal Vegetable Mineral
Counterpoint
Covent Garden Physio
Developments in Literacy Trust UK
Global Poverty Project
Good for Nothing
Hubbub
Improbable Theatre Company
Julian Stoneman Associates Ltd.
Machido Team
Makerversity
Matthew Gill
Mayku
Our Path
Rare Day
Roland Ellis
Sound and Music
Street and Co
Swarm
The Clore Leadership Programme
The Council
Unmade
We would also like to thank the many organisations who have been very supportive in helping to bring together this list including;
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