AL GORE, FORMER US vice president, Nobel laureate and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, has led the global discussion about climate change for many years. His multi award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth (2006) has been widely credited with changing the way world leaders and citizens think about the issue. Don Henry is public policy fellow in environmentalism at The University of Melbourne and is a former director of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He is a long-term collaborator with Al Gore. In this conversation they explore the recent Paris Agreement, and the future.

The Paris climate agreement was recently concluded – what opportunities and challenges does it present to the world for the future?