Gore's climate ally answers call:The Alliance for Climate Protection

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AL GORE is putting his earnings from the global warming movie into a new institute to make the issue a top political priority for the US, and he has recruited a woman from Sydney to run it.

The historic scale of the challenge has persuaded Cathy Zoi, an American who has lived in Australia for the past 12 years, to move to San Francisco for the chance of "doing a really important job in the world's second-best city".

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The Alliance for Climate Protection will be based in San Francisco and run by Ms Zoi, a former assistant director-general of the NSW Environment Protection Authority and the founding chief executive of the Sustainable Energy Development Authority.

Ms Zoi, who lives in Mosman with her husband, Robin, and two teenage children, said her job would be "to make climate change a national political imperative" for Americans.

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