Paris agreement is a strong signal that 'we will solve climate crisis', Al Gore says

Leading environmental activist says cheaper renewable energy provides an opportunity to create a sustainable world economy - but we must do more

Al Gore, former US vice-president, Nobel laureate and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, has led the global discussion about climate change for many years. His multi-award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth (2006) has been widely credited with changing the way world leaders and citizens think about the issue. Don Henry is public policy fellow in environmentalism at the University of Melbourne and is a former director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He is a long-term collaborator with Gore. Their conversation was recorded for the Griffith Review.

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