The prize went to former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) jointly. Established in 1988 by the UN General Assembly, the IPCC coordinated a program of climate change research by several thousand experts in more than 100 countries.
The IPCC and Mr. Gore, author of "An Inconvenient Truth" and the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary by the same title, were awarded the Peace Prize “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.”
