Wine Enthusiast – October 2019

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Q&A

TACKLING

CLIMATE

CHALLENGE

Al Gore shares his

environmental expertise

with the wine world.

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ince leaving office in 2001,

former Vice President Al Gore

has spent much of the 21st

century studying and fight-

ing against climate change.

In addition to being a corecipient of the

2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his political

efforts to push the climate crisis, Gore is

the founder and chairman of The Climate

Reality Project (formerly called the Alli-

ance for Climate Protection), author of

topical books like An Inconvenient Truth

(Rodale Books, 2006) and subject of a two

Netflix documentaries on the issue.

All of these credentials made him a

good choice to be the keynote speaker

for Climate Change Leadership Porto

Summit—Solutions for the Wine

Industry, which was held in Portugal this

past March. The three-day conference

provided an opportunity for industry

leaders to share experiences and both

short- and long-terms plans for dealing

with the changing climate. We caught up

with him to learn more about the speech

and his relationship with wine.

—Lauren Mowery