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Al Gore and the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have won the Noble Peace Prize f0r 2007.

Since Al Gore lost in his bid to win the Presidenctial race in 2000, he had turned his energy to make the world a better place to live in. Lets hope with this award, he will continue to work even harder to make the world a better place and not return to politics. 

The Norwegian Nobel committee cited the recipients for their work “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 committee said it wanted to contribute to efforts “to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.”

Gore, 59, is bound to attract most of the attention when the winners claim their 10-million-Swedish-kronor (1.5-million-dollar, 1.1-million-euro) prize in December.

Bill Clinton’s vice president has helped put global warming high up the international agenda with his Oscar-winning 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth”, based on years of lectures on the subject.

The Nobel committee described Gore as “probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”

Like in any competition, the are winners and losers. Unfortunately, Al Gore and IPCC have beaten our local candidate, Tun Dr Mahathir. Tun Dr Mahathir was nominated by NGOs in Bosnia for his effort to bring peace in the region.