Wise Leadership Interview Series: Al Gore Puts Sustainability in the Spotlight

Al Gore talks about making An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: “When discussions about a sequel began several years ago… when it came to the 10-year anniversary that seemed like a good marker to say, Okay, here’s what’s new.”

In each of these series of interviews, we spend 7 minutes (or more, in this case!) talking with vital voices on leadership. In October 2017, we joined Al Gore in conversation, whose film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power featured at this year’s Zurich Film Festival. The following words are all Al’s; the headlines are our questions and themes.

Does the existence of a sequel mean that the critical climate change message of the first film (An Inconvenient Truth) wasn’t received, and the film didn’t achieve its purpose?

I don’t agree with that assessment. Public opinion has changed all around the world. More than 2/3 of the American people now understand that this is a crisis, it’s man-made, we have to address it, and we are now making progress. And the Paris Agreement was a truly historic breakthrough! Here you have virtually every nation in the entire world agreeing to go to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by…