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seafan

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Fri Oct-12-07 04:51 AM
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56. Here is what renewed hope for our world looks like!

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Oslo -The United Nations climate body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore of the United States shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced in Oslo on Friday. Gore and the IPCC were cited "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 Norwegian Nobel committee said.

The Nobel prize, worth 10 million kronor (1.53 million dollars), will be handed over at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10. The prize will be share in two equal parts.

Earth Times
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:14:05 GMT

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "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".

NobelPrize.org

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