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IPCC Receives Nobel Peace Prize
The 2007 Award
Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said that "Honoring the IPCC through the grant of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 in essence can be seen as a clarion call for the protection of the earth as it faces the widespread impacts of climate change."
Calling for a sharper focus on actions that could address climate change, the Norwegian Nobel Committee officially awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on 10 December. The joint award, according to the Committee, was for “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
- “Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades,” the Committee stated, “the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming.”
- And Al Gore, the Committee said, “is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”
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