PinnedThe Times climate event will feature interviews and sessions with speakers including (clockwise from upper left) Ajay Banga, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Marie Kondo, Bill Gates, Michael R. Bloomberg and Ebony Twilley Martin. The Climate Forward live event is bringing together some of climate’s most vital newsmakers to share ideas, work through problems and answer tough questions about the threats presented by a rapidly warming planet. The former vice president noted that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks. “That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event in Manhattan. “It’s enough already.”Expert journalists from across The Times’s newsroom are providing critical analysis of the remarks by guests at the Climate Forward event, who include world leaders, activists, scientists and corporate executives.

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