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| Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize | Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize |
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| Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning. | Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning. |
| The UN's IPCC, comprising 3,000 leading climate scientists, is the world's top authority on global warming. | |
| The Nobel committee said it wanted to help the world focus on the threat it faced from climate change. | The Nobel committee said it wanted to help the world focus on the threat it faced from climate change. |
| Announcing the winners, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, said they had been chosen "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". | |
| The Nobel committee closely guards the names of nominees, but this year speculation was high that the recipient would be linked to climate change campaigns. |