Prix Nobel de la paix 2007

Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 12, 2007
Filed at 5:48 a.m. ET

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Gore's film ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

''His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,'' the citation said. ''He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.''

It cited Gore's awareness at an early stage ''of the climatic challenges the world is facing.

The committee cited the Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have ''created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.''

Members of the panel, a network of 2,000 scientists, were surprised that it was chosen to share the honor with Gore, a spokeswoman said.