12/16/2023 0 Comments Conversations with tyler al gore![]() All kinds of other less well known but extremely significant technologies have been coming down in cost quite dramatically. And the question you’ve asked, how does technology help to solve the climate crisis in multiple ways, we have seen some rather stunning cost reduction curves that have been highlighted in solar electricity, wind electricity, batteries, electric vehicles. I’m here with my colleague, Lila Preston, we’re partners in Generation Investment Management. What would you say is the tech sector’s role in tackling climate crisis?Īl Gore: Well, first of all, Jessica, thank you for interviewing us today. You for decades said technology has an important role to play in improving our lives and our planet. Gore, you did play a very important role in incorporating computers into the government and making the internet and databases more widely accessible. Jessica Mathews: We felt that we could not host a tech conference in Park City without inviting the man who created the internet, former Vice President Al Gore. Gore and Miss Preston on the new green frontier is my colleague Fortune’s Jessica Matthews. It’s a great honor to welcome Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, he’s joined by his colleague Lila Preston Generation’s head of growth equity, interviewing Mr. Vice President and co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on finding a new approach to sustainable investing. So to introduce one of our panelists, we have a climate message pioneer, former U.S. And it’s imperative that this tech actually lead to solutions, tangible, so we can fix this. The climate tech market is expected to grow to $417 billion by 2030. So this is where tech will step in, hopefully. And so far, the first half of the year has been pretty terrible in terms of weather catastrophes. And total wild weather should be costing the economy $165 billion this year. alone experienced 18 separate weather and climate disasters, which each cost the economy at least $1 billion each. We had orange skies for a day because of Canadian wildfires a month ago, record heat in Europe, snow fields in Switzerland disappearing, so there’s no denying that climate change is real and changing our lives. In New York last night, there were catastrophic floods 20 miles north of the city. ![]() Here in Utah, the Great Salt Lake remains at low levels. Watch the video above or read the full transcript below.įortune: So now that we’ve discussed the business climate here in Utah, let’s talk about the meteorological climate worldwide and the role tech could play in helping humanity respond to the biggest challenge in our lifetime. In an interview with Fortune’s Jessica Matthews, Gore discussed potential solutions and his opinion of the Inflation Reduction Act. It lingers there on average, each molecule about 100 years,” Gore said Monday at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Deer Valley, Utah. “So it builds up and it traps as much extra heat every day as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class, atomic bombs exploding on the Earth every day.” “We’re putting 162 million tons of manmade global warming pollution into that part of the sky that’s blue, it’s only five to seven kilometers thick. ![]()
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