This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7041082.stm
The article has changed 11 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
Version 1 | Version 2 |
---|---|
Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize | Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize |
(10 minutes later) | |
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 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". | 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". |
HAVE YOUR SAY It would have made more sense to wait and see if Gore et al actually had an effect, but at least this might serve as a wake-up call to the naysayers Geoff, Bensberg, Germany Send us your comments | |
Mr Gore, 59, made a failed bid for the US presidency in 2000. Since then he has emerged as a leading climate campaigner - winning an Oscar for his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, an unlikely box-office hit. | |
The IPCC is an expert body of atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, economists and other specialists. | |
The two winners will share the $1.5m prize. | |
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. | 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. |