00:00In an exclusive interview with Euronews, former U.S. vice president and founder of the Climate
00:07Reality Project, Al Gore, said a reform of the U.N. climate summit is necessary in order
00:13to speed up climate action. The phase-out of fossil fuels is essential for limiting
00:18global warming to 1.5 degrees, but it is paradoxically the second year in a row that the conference
00:24is held in a fossil fuel-dependent country.
00:27I think the process should be reformed. I think it's absurd to have, for example, what
00:33we had last year with the CEO of one of the dirtiest oil companies on the planet serving
00:42as the president of the COP. It's a direct conflict of interest. And while the president
00:49of this COP is not the head of the oil industry, he is very much in sync with this country's
00:57reliance on fossil fuels.
01:02Al Gore noticed that while people are growing increasingly concerned over the climate crisis,
01:07he says the fossil fuel industry continues to promote falsehoods about it.
01:13People are growing more concerned. But at the same time, the fossil fuel industry, which
01:21has an interest in suppressing concern about the climate crisis because they don't want
01:28to reduce the amount of fossil fuel they're burning, they've been very active in trying
01:35to hold back the measures that have to be taken in order to solve this.
01:43But the former U.S. vice president said that the fossil fuel industry is losing some of
01:48its major markets, such as through the advancement of renewable energy generation and the rising
01:53popularity of electric vehicles. Al Gore also believes the younger generation come in with
01:59much stronger opinions about solving the climate crisis.
02:03Scientists have been telling us for a long time that the fact that they were right in
02:08what they said years ago should make all of us pay more attention to what they're saying
02:14now. This could destroy the future of humanity if we don't take bold action.
02:20Al Gore is hopeful and said he believes in humanity's ability to rise to the challenge,
02:25but that action is urgently needed.
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