Al Gore

Thank you very much for the warm welcome.

And it's been 10 years since the Paris Agreement, and every single nation in the world, 195 nations, agreed to try to get to net zero by mid-century.

And let me deal with the elephant in the room.

One nation, only one, has ...

begun the process of withdrawing, and the Trump administration has also canceled executive orders, withdrawn from international climate organizations.

They have declared a so-called energy emergency in order to promote fossil fuels.

They've phased out government support for clean energy.

But bear this in mind.

During the first

Trump, four-year term.

Investments in the energy transition doubled.

We have seen solar capacity more than double.

Electric vehicle sales have doubled.

Wind energy went up by almost 50 percent during his first term.

And we are seeing

that 60 percent during his first four years of new energy came from renewable energy, and coal investments went down almost 20 percent.

So there's good news and there's bad news.

A lot's happened in the last 10 years.

But I want to ask this question.

The fossil fuel industry wants to ignore the amazing good news, and they are labeling the commitments that the world made at the Paris negotiations as a fantasy, and they're calling for an abandonment of the efforts to reduce emissions.