On Monday, May 25, Cate Blanchett spoke on the topic of climate change at the "World Business Summit on Climate Change" in Copenhagen. In front of 700 participants, among them the heads of Pepsico, Siemens or Ericsson, she not only urged the representatives of some of the biggest businesses in the world to invest into low carbon economies, but also warned of the desastrous effects climate change will have and already has on both economy and environment in her homeland Australia, citing the recent bush fires in Victoria as an example.

"Australia's best climate scientists have been warning us that we'll face many more catastrophic fire days in south-east Australia unless the world acts to dramatically cut greenhouse pollution."

"We have the ability to kick start the low carbon economies of the future right when we need to, and that's now."

Later this year, the world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for bringing a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol on the way, which will expire in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol regulates carbon exhaustion with the intention to stabilize the greenhouse gas balance.

Says Blanchett, "Political failure at Copenhagen in December is quite simply unacceptable and this powerful room must play a major role in preventing this failure."

It's May 14th, and that means it's Cate's birthday! And not just any birthday, it's a milestone birthday as she is turning 40 today. Have a great day Cate, congratulations from all of us at cateblanchett.net and cate-forums.com, we wish you many more creative, healthy years to come!

On March 25, 2009, Cate attended the launch of "David Williamson: Behind The Scenes," a biography of the Australian playwright written by Williamson's journalist wife Kristin, at the Wharf Theatre in Sydney together with husband Andrew Upton and other figures from the Australian theatrical and literary world. In a speech, she lauded him as "the single most influential voice in mainstream Australian theatre."

Cate remarked upon Williamson as being "instrumental in developing an audience for that voice and very passionate about creating a serious platform from which Australian writers could speak."

You can watch a video clip of the public event here.

As some of you might have picked up, or perhaps you already own some, Cate is featured on a special edition range of Australian stamps, going by the name of 'Australian Legends'. Other stamps in the series feature Geoffrey Rush, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. For those of you who would like a stamp, they can be purchased here. A launch gala was thrown on the 23rd of January in Sydney, and we've added some pictures and a video with footage of the Gala and a short interview with Cate. Pictures are here courtesy Ben Townsend Photography.

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According to Hollyscoop, Cate is to get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame this friday!

Cate Blanchett is set to receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this Friday.

Steven Spielberg and David Fincher, who is the director of Blanchett's upcoming film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be there to help Cate unveil her star in front of the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Cate's star is number 2,376th to be handed out. Congratulations to Cate! She definitely deserves the honor.

Congratulations, Cate! Many thanks to Layara @ cate-forums for posting!

Don't forget to catch Cate and Brad Pitt on Oprah tomorrow! More info about tomorrow's show can be found here!

It's Cate's birthday today!! Me, Nora, and the cate-forums staff and members would like to wish Andrew, Cate, Dashiell, Roman and Iggy a great day today, and many more years to come!

This is old news, but amidst all the hoo-hah it slipped my mind to post it. Scandalous, I know. But in any case, Cate brought 6-day-old Iggy with her to the 2020 summit.

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We would like to send the warmest congratulations to Andrew, Cate, Dashiell and Roman, with the birth of their son and brother, Ignatius Martin Upton!!

A new poster for Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has surfaced.