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The singer recorded a video message, with "The
Office" actor Rainn Wilson, explorer Levison Wood and Robert
Irwin, son of the late Australian conservationist Steve Irwin,
also lending their voices to the project in conjunction with
Britain's University of Exeter.
The global climate summit, hosted by British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson, kicks off in Glasgow on Oct. 31.
"This year our leaders are deciding the global actions required
on the environment climate emergency in a critical decade for
our planet," Eilish said. "We must stand together and speak up
to save our planet, not just for us, but for our future
generations, and we need urgent, urgent action now and to work
together as one."
Britain has cast the summit as the last big chance for countries
to commit to steps to slow rising temperatures.
"Courage. That's what our world’s leaders need more than
anything. The decisions that they make about the climate crisis
in the next decade are the most important decisions in our
planet’s history," Wilson said.
Arctic Basecamp was founded by Gail Whiteman, a social scientist
who studies how decision makers make sense of environmental
threats such as climate change. The group has set up a tent camp
for scientists at the World Economic Forum in Davos and will be
attending the COP26 summit.
"This is a crisis and the Arctic is sounding the alarm. It is
time that world leaders come together to create real change that
ensures a safe future for humanity," Whiteman said in a
statement.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Peter Graff)
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