Gore's two decade climate journey

Twenty years after his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains optimistic about confronting the climate crisis despite underestimating the fossil fuel industry's resistance.

“The resistance has been more durable and sustained than I expected it to be.”

Scientists were right, maybe understated it

Climate scientists' predictions have proven accurate, and some impacts may be worse than originally forecast. Global heating is causing record heatwaves and glacier collapses.

“The scientists unfortunately have been proven to be absolutely correct.”

Oil industry captured governments

The fossil fuel industry has gained control over many governments and even influenced UN climate science bodies to a shocking degree, according to Gore.

“The fossil fuel industry has captured control of too many governments.”

Climate reality network spans globe

Gore's Climate Reality Project has built a grassroots movement of 4.5 million people across 196 countries to train and mobilize climate activists.

Tipping points threaten catastrophe

Melting ice sheets and the Amazon turning into savanna could trigger irreversible climate tipping points that cause utter devastation if temperature rise isn't stopped.

Clean energy now cheaper than coal

Renewable energy has become routinely cheaper than fossil fuels, making mass adoption inevitable. Previous worst case projections of 4C warming are now unlikely.

We're approaching the winning moment

Gore believes clean energy momentum will soon become unstoppable, but the critical question is whether this happens fast enough to avoid catastrophic tipping points.

“I think we are going to win this. The remaining question is whether we will win it in time.”

Renewables are now unstoppable

UN Secretary General António Guterres echoed Gore's optimism, saying renewables are the cheapest and fastest source of new electricity, making clean energy adoption inevitable.

“Clean energy has gone from alternative to unstoppable.”