People's Climate Music hip hop tour brings diversity to climate change fight

The Act on Climate national bus tour is stopping in areas worst affected by high pollution and social inequality, driving the message that urban communities and people of color are most afflicted by climate change

As New York City gears up for Climate Week and the UN Sustainable Development Summit at the end of September, musicians, actors and activists - including Bill McKibben, Malik Yusef and Naomi Klein - are touring the US in a bus to highlight how people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change.

"The tour is bringing awareness of climate injustice to urban communities and people of color," said the Rev Lennox Yearwood, CEO of Hip Hop Caucus and organizer of the tour. "It's broadening the current climate movement."