After Protests at Cannes, Creative Leaders Say Climate Change Must Become a Priority

'A wake-up call in this setting of rosé, big ships and helicopters'

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CANNES, France—From almost any angle, the unavoidable backdrop of Cannes is a sprawling flotilla of cruise ships and megayachts. Black helicopters buzz endlessly back and forth, shuttling executives to and from the Cannes Lions festival. It is a place largely defined by inescapable excess.

While the juries at this year’s Cannes Lions certainly awarded work that championed social and environmental causes, few could say the festival conveyed any sense of urgency on the topic of climate change, despite the dire threats faced worldwide via warming oceans, mass extinctions and rapidly changing ecosystems.

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