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Nobel Peace Prize recipient and 45th Vice President of the United States of America, Al Gore; Premier of Queensland and Minister for Trade, The Hon. Annastacia Palaszczuk MP
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Al Gore | Climate change and economics: Al GoreFormer Vice President Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.’s board of directors. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers An Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason, and the best-sellers Earth in the Balance, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, and most recently, The New York Times best-seller An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.
He is the subject of the documentary movie An Inconvenient Truth, which won two Oscars in 2006, and a second documentary in 2017, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change".
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Annastacia Palaszczuk | Climate change and economics: Al GoreAnnastacia Palaszczuk is serving her second term as Premier of Queensland. The member for Inala since 2006, she has held Ministerial portfolios in Disability Services, Multicultural Affairs and Transport and has committed government to delivering economic growth, employment and attracting investment.
