Open AccessIPCC and Gore share Nobel Peace Prize
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2007eo420004
Subject(s) - political science , norwegian , vice president , climate change , environmental ethics , management , economics , biology , philosophy , ecology , linguistics
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Jr. have been named as co‐recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on 12 October. The Committee cited them “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.”