The former United States Vice President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace. The IPCC is a United Nations network of scientists. They were instrumental in spreading the harmful effects of global warming and climate change. A cautionary movie about the consequences of climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth” won the 2007 Academy Award for best documentary. The Nobel committee called Gore as the single individual who has done a lot of work to create a greater worldwide understanding of the needs to be adopted to save the planet. Mr Gore announced that he would give his portion of the $1.5million to the non-profit organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, that he founded last year. Gore considered it the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to enhancing our understanding of the climate crisis.
Mr. Rajendra Prachauri who chairs the U.N. Body on climate change observed that the Nobel Prize committee had realized the value of knowledge in tackling the climate change crisis. The climate change panel was established in 1988 and had issued a series of reports assessing the climate conditions of our planet.
Mr.Al Gore was born in 1948 and was very active in politics and was the Vice President of the USA from 1993 till 2000.