Al Gore Goes Deep On Climate
Talking About Climate Change With Al Gore
Coral Davenport, July 19, 2017 (NY Times)
“In 1997, Al Gore, then the vice president of the United States, helped forge the first climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, promising the rest of the world that the United States would lead the fight against global warming. That promise was broken when President George W. Bush later announced that the United States would abandon the treaty. In 2015, President Barack Obama made the same promise when he helped forge the Paris climate accord — a promise that was broken when President Trump announced in June that he would withdraw the United States from the deal. In a [wide-ranging, hour-long] conversation in New York on [July 18, Mr. Gore described how he sees the policy landscape unfolding in the 21st century, as the effects of climate change become more clear.” click here for more
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