He is a former US Senator from Tennessee, where he lives, former US Vice President (1993-2001), and, as Democratic nominee for President in 2000, he lost a highly contested election by a very slim margin. In recent years, he founded and chairs the Climate Reality Project to train people to promote solutions for the global climate crisis. He is also the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management.
He is author of;
- Earth in the Balance (1992)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- The Assault on Reason (2007)
- The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (2013),
He is well-known for his two feature-length documentary films, “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006) and “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” (2017), on the rise of extreme weather.
Along with the IPCC, Gore was selected as the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change