Gore, UN climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize

In Norway, former US Vice President Albert Gore Jr and the U.N. climate panel were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their 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,” according to the Nobel award citation. Gore and the two groups will share the $1.54 million prize. Of Gore, the committee said “He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”

Gore has focused his work since his controversial loss in the 2000 US Presidential elections on climate change, famously including his creation of the Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”.

Last month, former Vice-President Gore joined Brazil’s President Lula, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger  and other world leaders at the UN to discuss approaches to a new global climate change treaty.

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