https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/climate/why-al-gore-is-shifting-his-climate-activism-abroad.html
Excerpt: In recent weeks, Gore has watched with alarm as President Trump stretches the limits of executive authority to dismantle federal climate policy, roll back environmental protections and eliminate incentives for clean energy.
He’s watched the canceled federal grants, the mass layoffs, the paused renewable energy permitting and the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development, and he’s watched as the Environmental Protection Agency revised its mission.
Each of these actions is disrupting efforts to reduce emissions and protect the environment.
“Are they different in blowing through stop signs and warning signs and red lines and constitutional barriers?” he said. “Of course they are. I mean, this is something new for sure.”
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Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism.
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“Grassroots pressure in countries around the world is a key element in mobilizing sufficient public support for the urgent climate action that’s needed,” he said. “And with the newly elected leadership in the U.S., other countries will play an even more significant role.”
