Some of the biggest names in music are heading to the New York metropolitan area this summer to perform in six-hour concert designed to raise awareness about global warming, organizers said.

The Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey is one of seven concerts to be held on seven continents on July 7. The first will begin in Sydney, Australia. The American show will wind down 24 hours of music.

Tickets are expected to cost about $100 apiece and proceeds will go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, of which Vice President Gore is chairman of the board, and other international nongovernmental organizations.

Officials from the alliance would not estimate the amount of revenue they expect to take in from the seven concerts, but the chief executive officer of the Alliance, Catherine Zoi, said the money would fund a communications campaign to make people “aware of the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis.”

The campaign “will connect with lots of different kinds of people and make them hopeful and optimistic about what they can do,” she said. “I don’t want to unveil too much of what we’re doing.”

Concert organizers initially hoped to hold the American show on the National Mall in Washington, but were told the space already was booked, a spokesman for Live Earth, Yusef Robb, said. A few Republican senators opposed a plan to hold the concert outside the Capitol.

Reuters reported that Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senator Inhofe, a Republican of Oklahoma, said Mr. Inhofe objected to any events on the Capitol grounds “that are either highly partisan or politically controversial — and the proposed Gore concert is both.”

The New Jersey concert is to include performances by Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, the Dave Matthews Band, and The Police, among others. More than 2 billion people are expected to watch, listen, or attend the international concerts this summer.