25 Jan-7 Feb: ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ free for all in Maastricht

January 17, 2007

Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” will be shown for free at Lumière cinema for three weeks starting on 25 January, thanks to a private sponsorship of law firm Paulussen Advocaten.

The film deals with climate change and the effects of global warming.

The paper reports that the initiative aims at increasing awareness about the issues around global warming among Maastricht inhabitants.

Source: Dagblad De Limburger, 17 January 2007

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary by Al Gore about the effects of global warming

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