The Climate Reality Project announced the 31st Climate Reality Leadership Corps training to be held in the Philippines from March 14 to 16.
Al Gore, former vice president of the United States and founder/ chairman of The Climate Reality Project, will lead the Manila training for hundreds of new Climate Reality Leader. He will provide them with the knowledge and tools to build public awareness of our global climate challenge and drive action for solutions worldwide.
This is the first Climate Reality Leadership Corps training after the COP21 summit held in Paris this past December.
“In December, the nations of the world concluded a bold and historic agreement, demonstrating a strong and unified global determination to solve the climate crisis,” said Gore.
“It is now time to take the next step. The Paris agreement lays the foundation for nations, businesses, investors and individuals around the world to work together to bring an end to the fossil fuel era and support the sustainable growth of a clean energy economy. My hope for this training is to build upon the momentum from Paris to work toward solutions from all corners of the world, starting with the Philippines—one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.”
Scientists, strategists, communicators, and technical specialists will join Gore in discussing the science of climate change, the direct cost climate impacts are having on communities around the world and solutions available to solve the climate crisis.
The program is designed to formally train a new group of community, government and business leaders to become Climate Reality Leaders, who will then become change agents in their own communities.
They will emerge from the program as energized and skilled communicators with the knowledge, tools and drive to educate diverse communities on the costs of carbon pollution and what can be done to solve the climate crisis.
The Climate Reality Project has thousands of Climate Reality Leaders from more than 130 countries, including recent trainings held in Miami, Toronto, New Delhi, Istanbul, Chicago, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, and Melbourne.