Al Gore continues to focus the world's attention on the global climate crisis.
Former Vice President Al Gore is the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis, a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management and a cofounder of Climate TRACE. He is also a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a member of Apple’s board of directors and a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. Gore is the author of numerous books on the climate crisis and our collective future and the subject of the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, released in 2017.
Gore was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, to the US Senate in 1984 and became vice president in 1992. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."