Al Gore

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001

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2024 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. president Joe Biden.
2024 Gore is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.
November 2021 Spoke at the early stages of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, and criticized the Morrison government for insufficient emissions reduction targets.
2020 Helped launch Climate TRACE, an initiative to independently monitor global greenhouse gas emissions.
May 2018 Included as a member of the Indian Government committee to coordinate year-long celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, with celebrations planned to begin from October 2, 2019.
2017 Premiered 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power' at the Sundance Film Festival, a follow-up to his 2006 climate change documentary.
January 2017 Revived the Climate and Health Summit after it was cancelled by the CDC, hosting the event through the Climate Reality Project.
2013 Became a vegan, citing environmental and health-related reasons.
2010 Attended WE Day in Vancouver, Canada, a WE Charity event.

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