Banff Lines Up Participants for Climate Change Panel

TORONTO, April 30: As part of its new eco-friendly
initiative, the Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) has announced that
broadcaster and award-winning scientist David Suzuki, actress Daryl Hannah and
acclaimed scientist, explorer, conservationist and author Tim Flannery will
participate in a climate change panel on Monday, June 11, at the Fairmont Banff
Springs in Banff, Canada.

Entitled “Code Green—Environmental Responsibility in
the Media,” the panel will be moderated by Michael Allder—the executive
producer of The Nature of Things—who
will address the power of television as a vehicle for social change. The panel
will address issues such as the ways in which content creators and distributors
can address the topic of climate change and keep the subject fresh for
consumers. BWTVF organizers will also offer a host of other environmentally
friendly initiatives that include carbon-neutral travel options to using
recycled paper for Festival agendas.

Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, Suzuki is well known
to millions as the host of the CBC’s popular science television series, The Nature
of Things. He is also the author of 43
books and has received numerous awards, including the Roger Tory Peterson Award
from Harvard University. Daryl Hannah is best known for her work in Ridley
Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner and
as the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill
Volumes 1 and 2. As a keen
environmentalist, Hannah has her own weekly video blog on sustainable solutions
and has won numerous awards for her environmental activism. Tim Flannery is one
of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers. A familiar voice on ABC Radio, NPR
and the BBC for over a decade, he is also known to viewers of the Documentary
Channel as writer-presenter on the series The Future Eaters, which looks at the destruction that humans are
wreaking on the planet. Flannery
has authored a number of books, his most recent being the acclaimed The
Weather Makers, which argues for the need
to address the implications of global change immediately.

“The Banff World Television Festival is honored to have environmentalists
David Suzuki, Daryl Hannah and Tim Flannery share their views to keep the
troubling issue of climate change at the forefront of the media,” commented
BWTVF director of content Jennifer Harkness. “Their passion and dedication to
this subject will fuel the debate at our Code Green panel.”