Al Gore: World will agree new climate deal - Telegraph
The Nobel peace prize winner believes the election of Barack Obama as US President and a growing awareness among business leaders of the environmental threat means there is now enough political momentum to tackle the problem.
He said: "There is a very impressive consensus now emerging around the world that solutions to the economic crisis are also the solutions to the climate crisis."
Mr Gore said he was confident that a global climate deal will be agreed at the UN-brokered climate talks scheduled in Copenhagen in December.
Speaking in an interview with the Guardian, he said: "I actually think we will get an agreement at Copenhagen.
"Obama's election is one of the main factors. But we also have a big ally in the reality the planet is under assault. This collision with human civilisation is increasingly dire."
Mr Gore says he has also detected a shift on the part of many of the world's business leaders.
"They're seeing the writing on every wall they look at. They're seeing the complete disappearance of the polar ice caps right before their eyes in just a few years..."
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