World leaders set to adopt new targets to tackle climate change

As the deadline to achieving the Millennium Development Goals nears, 193 world leaders will congregate at the United Nations in September this year to adopt a series of ambitious targets to end extreme poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change for everyone by 2030 under the Global Gains Campaign.

The Global Goals campaign is a global collaborative effort to ensure that these Goals are world famous and that they are successfully acted upon.

In order to make the Goals famous Project Everyone, the brainchild of Richard Curtis is on a mission to get the Goals to 7 billion people in the 7days after they are adopted.

Radio Everyone forms one part of that ambition, alongside the World’s Largest Lesson and the World’s First Global Cinema Ad.

“Our aim is to gather an amazing volume of extraordinary radio content about The Global Goals and then pulse it across the world to everybody on the planet that listens to radio. By getting The Goals into people’s hearts and minds – and ears! - we can inspire the next generation of Global Citizens to be the first generation that ends extreme poverty, the most determined to tackle inequalities and the last to live with the effects of climate change,” says Curtis.

The campaign has already attracted top African musicians Ice Prince, D’Banj and 2Face. The soundtrack for Radio Everyone has been written by singer/songwriter Peter Gabriel and recorded by South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir.

Using radio, the world’s most accessible medium, Radio Everyone will shine a spotlight on the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

Broadcasters around the world are signing up to carry content provided by Radio Everyone from 26 September to 2 October 2015.

Currently, stations in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia and The Gambia are supporting the campaign.

Three Kenyan radio stations, Radio Maisha, Radio Jambo and Homeboyz Radio have already signed-up.

Listeners around the world will also be able to access Radio Everyone via an online stream on globalgoals.org.