Al Gore has urged Ireland to deliver on “pledges” to protect our seas and help “solve the climate crisis”.
His rallying call rang out at Cork City Hall where delegates from around the world gathered to discuss the proposed Marine Protected Areas Bill on World Oceans Day.
While New Yorkers struggled to breathe under a blanket of smoke, the former US Presidential candidate told those gathered in the ‘Rebel city’ if political will is difficult to muster to remember “political will itself is a renewable resource and no people are better able to renew it than the people of Ireland”.
