2007 Nobel Peace Prize honors climate protection efforts

Closing long expectations and expectations, this October 12, the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Deputy General US President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts in assembling and propagating human-induced climate change knowledge, laying the foundations for the methods needed to deal with these Such changes.

Notice of the owner of the Nobel Peace Prize was announced at 4pm this afternoon (Vietnam time).

Hoa Binh Nobel Medal (Photo: VNN)

The Nobel Committee press release emphasized: Signs of future earth climate change must be acknowledged by the most serious and by the highest precautionary principle. Great climate change can change and threaten the conditions of humanity.

Climate change can cause large-scale migration and lead to more intense competition on natural resources on earth . Those changes will weigh on the most vulnerable countries in the world. The risk of violent, war conflicts in and between countries may increase.

Through the scientific reports that IPCC has published over the past two decades, IPCC has created a high consensus on the link between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from more than 100 countries have collaborated to come to a more certain conclusion about the level of global warming.

In the 1980s, global warming seemed to be just an interesting hypothesis, but in the 1990s, the scientific community gave more solid evidence to support this hypothesis. In the past few years, these relationships have become even clearer and the consequences have been the same.

For a long time, former US Vice President Al Gore, 59, is one of the world's leading environmental protection politicians. He was soon aware of the climate challenges facing the world. His strong commitment, reflected in political action, lectures, films and books, has further encouraged the fight against climate change. Perhaps he is the only individual who has done his best to make the world better understand the measures that need to be taken to combat climate change.

With the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is striving to focus the world's focus on processes and decisions needed to protect the world's future climate. , as well as mitigating the threat to human security. Action is needed now before climate change goes beyond human control.

Former US Vice President Al Gore (Photo: VNN)

This year's Nobel Peace Prize includes a medal, a certificate and $ 1.5 million divided equally for the IPCC and Mr. Al Gore.

The Nobel Peace Prize normally honors organizations and individuals who make great contributions to human rights, democracy, poverty reduction, sharing natural resources and the environment.

The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize belongs to Mr. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, Bangladesh for their social and economic development efforts. Together with his Grameen bank, Dr. Muhammad Yunus - who was dubbed the poor banker.

IPCC members - a network of 2,000 scientists - were surprised when IPCC shared this honor with Mr. Gore."We are also very happy if Mr. Al Gore alone received this award because the award acknowledged the importance of global climate change ," IPCC spokesman Carola Traverso Saibante said.

"I couldn't believe it and was completely surprised ," IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri told reporters and associates after hearing the news by phone at his New Delhi office. Then, speaking to the crowd outside the office, he hoped the award would make people more aware of climate change, aware of the urgency of the global warming war.

The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place at the University Hall of Oslo, Norway next December.

Minh Son (synthesized)