Speaking at the opening of "The Climate Project Asia Pacific Summit" here Sunday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate said he was grateful to President Yudhoyono for his dream, courage and leadership on global warming issue.
Al Gore praised President Yudhoyono`s courage when there was no initiative from the G-77 countries in various international negotiations about the climate change issue.
President Yudhoyono spoke when there were no G-77 leaders who were willing to appear to take any initiative and assisting them to break the prolonged and frustrating deadlock of several issuesm said the producer of a documentary film titled "An Inconvenient Truth" that led him to receiving the Nobel Prize in 2007.
President Yudhoyono had successfully brought at least a little progress in climate change negotiations with his leadership.
Therefore, he said he respected and admired him, his leadership,a and also his target that he had pledged in Copenhagen.
Al Gore hoped that President Yudhoyono would be able to continue his leadership and bring Indonesia and the world`s future to a better direction.
He said that the world was vulnerable to the climate change impacts and many things could be done as a solution to climate change.
The climate change had recently shown its impacts on agricultural and fisheries sectors that affected economy.
In his three-day visit to Indonesia, Al Gore has been scheduled to give a training on handling climate change issues, participated in by 350 people from 21 countries.
The participants were expected to be presenters of the Climate Project in which they shared their knowledge about environment to their communities.
Al Gore had also directly trained some 3,600 Climate Project presenters from 56 countries. A total of 900 of them came from the Asia Pacific region.(*)
Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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