Al Gore Is Back And Taking On Trump Over The Climate

By Evan Comen  •  September 18, 2025
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Nearly 20 years have passed since former Vice President Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth, one of the defining documentaries on global warming and a compelling call to action for all stakeholders of planet Earth. Since leaving office in 2001, Gore has emerged as one of the most outspoken advocates on environmentalism, earning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 2007.

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As the Trump administration worked to relax environmental regulations and halt clean energy investment over the past year, Gore has been unusually active in the public sphere. In recent months, he has delivered keynote speeches at events like Davos and San Francisco Climate Week, criticizing Trump’s climate rollbacks and kowtows to Big Oil. He has also launched new emissions-tracking tools and research reports designed to close gaps in greenhouse gas monitoring and strengthen public-private climate action. A closer look at the past year reveals Al Gore’s most important environmental contributions of 2025.

10. “State of Climate and Nature” panel at Davos 2025

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  • Date: January 22, 2025
  • Medium: Panel
  • Description: Opened the “State of Climate and Nature” session at Davos 2025, highlighting new Climate TRACE data pinpointing real-time, source-specific year-over-year increases in emissions.
 

9. Radio Davos interview: Climate action is “unstoppable”

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  • Date: February 17, 2025
  • Medium: Interview
  • Description: Argued that the global energy transition cannot be reversed in a WEF podcast.
 

8. San Francisco Climate Week keynote speech

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  • Date: April 21, 2025
  • Medium: Speech
  • Description: Delivered keynote remarks criticizing fossil fuel disinformation and so-called “climate realism.”
 

7. Launch of Climate TRACE monthly emissions updates

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  • Date: April 21, 2025
  • Medium: Initiative
  • Description: Announced the launch of monthly updates from Climate TRACE, providing independent, near real-time data on global emissions.
 

6. Comparison of Trump propaganda to Nazi Germany at SF Climate Week

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  • Date: April 22, 2025
  • Medium: Speech
  • Description: Compared Trump-era propaganda to early Nazi Germany, warning that authoritarian disinformation threatens both democracy and climate action.
 

5. TED Talk: ‘Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth’

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  • Date: June 30, 2025
  • Medium: Talk
  • Description: Attacked the fossil fuel industry’s framing of “climate realism” in a TED Talk, arguing that it serves as a delay tactic.
 

4. Statement on U.S. budget bill rollbacks

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  • Date: July 3, 2025
  • Medium: Statement
  • Description: Criticized rollbacks to clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, warning that the U.S. risks ceding leadership in green technology to China and Europe.
 

3. Climate TRACE update: 2025 emissions trend

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  • Date: September 1, 2025
  • Medium: Data update
  • Description: Reported that global emissions in the first half of 2025 were approximately 0.13% higher than the same period in 2024, based on Climate TRACE tracking.
 

2. Release of Sustainability Trends Report 2025

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  • Date: September 17, 2025
  • Medium: Report release
  • Description: Published Generation Investment Management’s ninth annual report, outlining urgent climate challenges, sustainability risks, and trends in the global energy transition.
 

1. FT interview on U.S. pressure over climate goals

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  • Date: September 17, 2025
  • Medium: Interview
  • Description: Accused the U.S. of pressuring trade partners to weaken climate goals and warned that China is emerging as the leader in the global energy transition.
 

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