Al Gore

According to the IEA, all of the fossil fuels are projected to peak within the next decade.

a few years.

We've seen, since the Paris Agreement, a complete turnaround in where the majority of investment is going, and a lot of these sectors are ones that need even more attention, agriculture, steel, et cetera.

But last year, if you look at all the new electricity installed worldwide, 93 percent of it was renewable, mostly solar.

So,

The IEA has told us long since, we have all the technologies we need and proven deployment models to reduce emissions 50 percent in this decade and clear line of sight to the other 50 percent.

A friend of mine in Tennessee said, if God wanted us to have unlimited free energy, he'd have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky.

Well, if you look at how long it took to install a gigawatt of solar 20 years ago, a full year, now it's down to 15 hours, and it's on the way down still.

So here's what I believe that the so-called climate realists are most wrong about.

They don't believe that we, the people who live on this planet, have the capacity to make the changes necessary to save our future.

The greatest president in my country's history, Abraham Lincoln, said at a time of dire crisis, the occasion is piled high with difficulty.

We must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new, we must think anew.

I believe

that we as human beings have the capacity to recognize that our survival is at stake and that we need to move faster even though the big polluters have the political and economic power to try to block us.

We've got everything we need.

The people are demanding change.

The one thing that they tell us might be in short supply is political will.

But always remember, political will is itself a renewable resource.

Let's get out there and renew it.