Al Gore plans to break the petrostate stranglehold on climate progress

Zero: The Climate Race

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Former US Vice President Al Gore has been going to COP summits since the beginning. But he’s much more than a COP-goer. Many of today’s climate activists say that Gore’s climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth was the reason they became activists. The movie won an Academy Award in 2007 and also bagged him that year’s Nobel Peace Prize alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Gore has become the de facto spokesman for climate change. In recent years and especially before COP28, he’s become much more vocal in calling out the villains. He has castigated the role of petrostates and oil companies who shape the COP agenda, saying they’ve “taken the disguise off” and are not good faith partners.

Bloomberg Green senior reporter Akshat Rathi spoke with Al Gore at the Bloomberg Green Summit at COP28 in Dubai to ask him how to break the stranglehold petrostates have over COP, why tackling climate change solves many other major problems, and why big emitters can no longer hide.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. Today, sewers, sanity and solutions.
0:07.0	Here in Dubai, some 100,000 people have arrived for COP28 from all around the world.
0:25.6	For many, it's their first COP.
0:27.6	They've had to grapple with unfamiliar settings, abundant legalese, and an intense schedule of meetings.
0:34.6	Others have been here since the start. Cop is familiar ground. That's
0:40.3	the case for former US Vice President Al Gore. But he's much more than a cop goer. Many of today's
0:47.3	climate activists have told me that Al Gore's movie, an inconvenient truth, was the reason they
0:53.3	became activists in the first place.
0:56.4	The movie won an Academy Award in 2007 and also backed him that year's Nobel Peace Prize
1:02.2	alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
1:06.1	And he's been at it for much longer.
1:08.8	He held hearings on climate change in the US Congress as far back
1:12.7	as 1976. Since then, he has become the de facto spokesman for climate change. In recent
1:19.7	years, and especially before this climate conference, he's become much more vocal in calling
1:25.1	out the villains. He has castigated the role of petro-states
1:28.3	and all companies in shaping the COP agenda, saying they've taken the disguise off and are
1:34.8	not good faith partners. I spoke with Al Gore at the Bloomberg Green Summit at COP 28 in Dubai
1:41.3	to ask him how to break the stranglehold petro states have over copp.
1:46.0	Why tackling climate change solves many other problems and why big emitters can no longer hide.
1:56.3	Thank you. Thank you very much.
2:03.6	Enthusiastic fans of your new book.
2:07.6	Well, thank you for your time. It's very precious.
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