--- title: Al Gore Hopes to Work With Donald Trump on Climate Change description: Former Vice President Al Gore addressed the future of climate policy following the election of Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-10T00:40:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:19.395Z article:section: Politics og:title: Al Gore Says He Hopes to Work With Donald Trump to Fight Climate Change og:description: "Now we know that our work must be redoubled" og:url: https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdbc6665f081336/6988adf60b72e367b96ebb44/al-gore-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: al-gore-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Al Gore Says He Hopes to Work With Donald Trump to Fight Climate Change twitter:description: "Now we know that our work must be redoubled" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdbc6665f081336/6988adf60b72e367b96ebb44/al-gore-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Al Gore Says He Hopes to Work With Donald Trump to Fight Climate Change > Sponsored content. 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Nov 10, 2016 12:40 AM UTC Former Vice President Al Gore [addressed the future of climate policy](https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/road-forward) following the [election](http://time.com/4564440/donald-trump-wins-2/?xid=homepage) of Donald Trump in a statement released on Wednesday. Urging people to continue the work needed to solve the climate crisis, Gore wrote that the efforts “are dependent not on politics or ideology—or elections—but on our commitment to each other, to the health of our planet and to a sustainable future for all.” “Last night President-elect Trump said he wanted to be a president for all Americans,” Gore wrote. “In that spirit, I hope that he will work with the overwhelming majority of us who believe that the climate crisis is the greatest threat we face as a nation.” Trump winning the election has all but guaranteed an [end to action that will address climate change](http://time.com/4564224/donald-trump-climate-change/) in the U.S.—the president-elect indicated in his speeches throughout the campaign that he would “scrap” current environmental regulation and revamp the coal industry. He also repeatedly said he would “cancel” or renegotiate the [Paris Agreement](http://time.com/4564224/donald-trump-climate-change/), the world’s most significant agreement on climate change to date. Referring to the Paris Agreement, Gore wrote, “We knew this work would not be easy—indeed, more would be required.” “Now we know that our work must be redoubled,” he wrote. “Today, without regard to last night’s outcome, we must turn our focus to making the promises of the Paris Agreement a reality by embracing the forces that are already working to grow our economy and transform our energy future.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/"},"headline":"Al Gore Says He Hopes to Work With Donald Trump to Fight Climate Change","datePublished":"2016-11-10T00:40:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:19.395Z","description":"\"Now we know that our work must be redoubled\"","url":"https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdbc6665f081336/6988adf60b72e367b96ebb44/al-gore-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fdbc6665f081336/6988adf60b72e367b96ebb44/al-gore-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"al-gore-trump","caption":"<> at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on April 7, 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","creditText":"Paul Marotta—2016 Paul Marotta","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4565716/al-gore-donald-trump-election/","name":"Al Gore Says He Hopes to Work With Donald Trump to Fight Climate Change"}}]}] ```