Climate Voter election debate to get big audience
Climate Voter election debate to get big audience
Auckland, 2 September 2014 - Tickets to
tomorrow night’s first-ever Climate Voter election debate
have sold out but an online audience will also get to see
the event live.
Over 55,000 New Zealanders have signed on at www.climatevoter.org.nz as Climate Voters since the initiative was launched on June 22.
‘The Great Climate Voter Debate’ will give
representatives of six political parties a chance to
convince a live audience plus online viewers to vote for
them based on the action they are taking on climate change.
The 330 tickets to the event at Auckland’s Q Theatre sold
out last week.
Hosted by Samantha Hayes from TV3's 3rd
Degree the line-up includes National’s Tim Groser,
Minister for Climate Issues, Labour deputy leader David
Parker, Green co-leader Russel Norman, New Zealand First
deputy leader Tracey Martin and Internet Mana candidate John
Minto. A spokesperson for the Maori Party has yet to be
confirmed.
The two-hour event will be streamed via www.climatevoter.org.nz/debate starting
at 7pm. It will finish with a review by a panel of guest
commentators.
Community hosted screenings of the
livestream have been organised in 13 centres from Whangarei
to Dunedin. Locations are mapped here
http://bitly.com/cvscreenings
The debate has been
organised by the Climate Voter initiative which is a
non-partisan alliance of six leading New Zealand
organisations: Forest and Bird, 350 Aotearoa, Greenpeace,
Generation Zero, Oxfam New Zealand and WWF New
Zealand.
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