Gore, climate panel share Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change.

Gore and the IPCC, based in Switzerland, received the award "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 Nobel committee said in a release Friday.

Gore is president of the interactive network Current TV, sits on several boards of directors and is chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection.

The former vice president also lectures on global warming, which he calls "the climate crisis." A film of his climate change presentation -- "An Inconvenient Truth" -- won the Academy Award for documentaries this year.

The IPCC is the outgrowth of the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Program. It reviews and assesses information needed to understand the scientific basis of climate changes caused by humans, potential impact brought about by changes and options to mitigate them.