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The Climate Reality Project was founded and is chaired by former US Vice President and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Hon. Al Gore. The Climate Reality Project’s mission is to catalyse a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society.
We develop and nurture a diverse ecosystem of people advocating for urgent action on climate change. The centrepiece of our work is in-person leadership training led by Mr. Gore on the science, impacts and solutions to the climate crisis.
Our alumni of trained climate reality leaders are intentionally selected from as wide a cross-section of society as possible — from company CEOs to Hollywood actors; from politicians to paediatricians; and from farmers to faith and First Nations leaders.
With communities across Australia and the Pacific increasingly experiencing severe impacts of climate change, the urgency of this work has never been clearer.
In 2020, global health restrictions forced us to radically overhaul our offering and switch rapidly to an online format. This was an extremely challenging undertaking as it had never been attempted before. We hoped in advance that we might receive one or two thousand applicants worldwide. However, the demand for the training far exceeded the capacity of the training platform —and in the end we had almost 10,000 people go through the course over those two weeks in 2020 alone!
Our innovation resulted in over 20,000 people graduating through our online course during the pandemic. This equates to a jump of 105% in the number of people we have trained since we started running leadership training in 2006. The switch also dramatically increased our global reach to the point where we now have leaders in 174 countries advocating for urgent change. (This includes over 2,000 in Australia and 122 in Ireland).
