Climate Politics

Al Gore Says Fossil Fuel Companies Are Destabilizing Democracy and the Environment

The former US vice president thinks we can be moving much faster on climate change and wants to recruit more people to help tackle the problem.

Al Gore.

Photographer: Naina Helén Jåma/Bloomberg

Climate solutions are here, they’re just not evenly distributed.

So says former US Vice President Al Gore, who remains staunchly optimistic that we can move faster to tackle climate change, even at a time of increasing political resistance in some parts of the world.