‘Trump cannot stop cimate movement’

US President Donald Trump cannot stop momentum to tackle climate change, former US vicepresident Al Gore said on Monday as he promoted his latest film on global warming at the Cannes Film Festival.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is the follow up to An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary credited with bringing climate change into mainstream political discourse in the US a decade ago.

Shot mostly before Trump’s election, it features the Republican candidate on the campaign trail promising to abolish environmental regulations and boost the coal and oil industries. At one point Trump tells a rally: “We need some global warming – it’s freezing!”

But with legal and political obstacles, Gore said Trump would be unable to stop the momentum that would shift society away from fossil fuels.

“We now know after four months of the Trump administration, no one person, not even a president, can stop the climate movement,” Gore told a news conference at the French film festival.

“The courts have blocked parts of what President Trump has attempted and the Congress has refused to act on other parts of his agenda. The American people are determined to continue making progress and will do so,” he added.

Trump’s administration has moved to unwind environmental rules but frustrated some conservatives by entertaining the idea of keeping the US in a global pact to fight climate change.

Gore expressed hope that Trump would opt not to quit the 2015 Paris deal on climate change signed by most countries in the world.