President-elect Barack Obama will meet
today with former Vice President Al Gore and Vice President-elect Joe Biden
before Gore heads to Poland,
where delegates from about 190 countries are gathered to debate a new global
climate-change treaty.
Obama and Gore will discuss energy and
climate change and how to use the new administration’s environmental policies to
boost the economy. The meeting comes amid speculation about who will make up
Obama’s energy and environment team.
There has been some speculation that Gore
could return to Washington
in an Obama administration. Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize last year for his
work to raise awareness on the dangers of global warming, has said he is not
interested in returning to government and taking a job in the new
administration team.
The former vice president's documentary on
climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” also won two Oscars in 2007.
Gore endorsed Obama in June and the two
discussed regularly throughout the election season. When asked if he would bring
Gore into a cabinet position to help deal with climate change Obama said he
would. In addition he said that he would play a central part “in us figuring
out how we solve the problem.” Obama’s plan on the topic of climate change
include the promise to increase U.S.
use of renewable energy sources dramatically and reduce dependence on foreign
suppliers of oil.
Al Gore served two terms as vice president
under President Bill Clinton. Since losing the controversial election to George
W. Bush in 2000, Gore has become a global spokesman on raising awareness on the
issue of climate change, sharing in a Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
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