>> TABLOID FABRICATED HEATHROW PLOT.
Evening Standard condemned by press watchdog for coverage of the Camp for Climate Action's Heathrow protest.

In a much awaited ruling the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) issued a stinging rebuke against the Evening Standard today. The usually mild-mannered PCC slammed the Standard's coverage of last summer's Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow as 'materially misleading' and 'alarmist'.

On 13 August last year, the Standard ran a front page story headlined 'Militants will hit Heathrow' the day before a climate change protest camp near Heathrow airport opened. Chief reporter Robert Mendick said he had uncovered a plot to paralyse the airport via invading runways and placing suspect packages. The story was subsequently echoed in several media outlets, all of which ran the false claims believing them to be true. The Camp for Climate Action immediately wrote to the PCC declaring that the article was 'fabricated'. The PCC adjudicated the complaint as 'upheld'. Read the full article here.

>> UN CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - BALI 3-14TH DEC. 2007
CLICK HERE TO SEE FRAGILE PLANET
APE is being represented at the UN Conference by Kenny Young who will be premiering APE’s new video ‘FRAGILE PLANET’ w/ music by RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO ft. STING.
The premiere will be held on 10 Dec. at a special dinner event at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Bali where 150 delegates and media will be attending.

And if you're not at the conference yourself, don't worry as you can see the video here on the APE site. Also see the Rhythms del Mundo Video Gallery for more great videos.  Fragile Planet was co-sponsored by APE, Global Iniatives, GEF, UNEP and the World Bank.  For more information about the Conference visit the UN website. http://www.un.org/climatechange/

>> ARTISTS PROJECT EARTH CO-SPONSOR 'BE THE CHANGE'.
APE co-sponsored the "BE THE CHANGE" conference at Central Hall, Westminster on 15-17 Nov 2007.  
Featuring many great climate change experts, speakers, scientists, writers, story-tellers, poets and schoolchildren, the conference was a resounding success!  APE's George Monbiot, Herbie Girardet and Kenny Young, all gave talks at this years electrically vibrant atmosphere.  We were honoured to be part of this informative, challenging and spark flying event.  We'll be posting more news about the conference shortly.   For more information visit the 'Be The Change' website.   Also visit the official 'Be The Change' Facebook group to see photos and share your feedback and enter a dialogue on the discussion board with those who have attended the event.

>> EXCLUSIVE UK PREMIERE OF THE 'DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE' DOCUMENTARY.
APE in association with Be The Change, World Future Council, The
Converging World, New Economics Foundation, and Rights and Humanity
are pleased to present the the EXCLUSIVE UK PREMIERE OF THE 'DALAI
LAMA RENAISSANCE' documentary. For more information visit the 'Be The Change' website.

>> APE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE 22 NEW PROJECTS TO RECEIVE FUNDING.
Following our second round of funding applications, the APE Board of Trustees and Advisors have selected 22 projects which will receive funding from proceeds of our hit album Rhythms del Mundo - Cuba.   You can also read about projects which received funding from the first round of grants from APE.

>> RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO PERFORM ON LIVE EARTH!. 
RDM performed at Live Earth in Hamburg. The live TV and internet feeds went out to hundreds of millions of people across the globe. As a result of their performance featuring the German artists Reamonn, the RDM album achieved Gold status, reaching no. 1 on Amazon and no. 3 on the German charts. Although chart positions are not our aims, our motivation is certainly to reach millions with the message about climate change and to enable us to fund many more effective projects. We are pleased that the album continues to do that and we thank you all for your wonderful support!  For further info see www.liveearth.org or click here to see the video footage.