2007 Nobel Peace Prize - wikipedia 2007 Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ← 2006 Nobel Peace Prize 2008 → Al Gore and leader of IPCC Rajendra K. Pachauri on the balcony of Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 2007. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) and Al Gore `` 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 ''. Contents 1 Announcement 2 Presentation 3 IPCC certificates 4 References Announcement The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on 12 October 2007. It stated that responses to indications of future climate changes must follow the precautionary principle, and that extensive changes would damage living standards, leading to likelihood of wars and violent conflicts. It paid tribute to the work of the IPCC : Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. -- It said that `` Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world 's leading environmentalist politicians '', and described him as `` probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted. '' In conclusion, it said the Nobel Committee was `` seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world 's future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man 's control. '' The award was given immediate publicity : an Associated Press article published by USA Today on 12 October 2007 and headlined `` Gore, scientists share Nobel Peace Prize '' quoted Pachauri as saying `` All the scientists that have contributed to the work of the IPCC are the Nobel laureates who have been recognized and acknowledged by the Nobel Prize Committee ''. He added that `` they should feel deeply encouraged and inspired. It is their contribution which has been recognized '', and said `` I only happen to be a functionary that essentially oversees the process. '' On the same day, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory listed its scientists who had contributed to the IPCC 's work, and said that Pachauri had sent a letter to lead authors of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report saying that he had `` been stunned in a pleasant way with the news of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC. This makes each of you a Nobel Laureate and it is my privilege to acknowledge this honour on your behalf ''. The letter went on to say that `` The fact that the IPCC has earned the recognition that this award embodies, is really a tribute to your knowledge, hard work and application. '' Presentation In Oslo on 10 December 2007, the presentation was made with a speech by Ole Danbolt Mjøs as Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and followed by Nobel Lectures given by Rajendra K. Pachauri, representing the IPCC, and Al Gore. In his lecture, Pachauri thanked those contributing to the IPCC : I pay tribute to the thousands of experts and scientists who have contributed to the work of the Panel over almost two decades of exciting evolution and service to humanity. -- IPCC certificates The IPCC presented scientists who had `` contributed substantially to the preparation of IPCC reports '' with personalized certificates for `` contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC ''. The certificates, which name the individual and feature a reproduction of the Nobel Peace Prize diploma, were sent to `` coordinating lead authors, lead authors, review editors, Bureau members, staff of the technical support units and staff of the secretariat from the IPCC 's inception in 1988 until the award of the prize in 2007. '' In a statement of 29 October, 2012 the IPCC clarified that the `` prize was awarded to the IPCC as an organisation, and not to any individual involved with the IPCC. Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner. It would be correct to describe a scientist who was involved with AR4 or earlier IPCC reports in this way : ' X contributed to the reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. ' '' It stated that it had not sent the certificates to `` contributing authors, expert reviewers and focal points. '' References ^ Jump up to : `` The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 ''. Oslo : The Norwegian Nobel Committee. 12 October 2007. Archived from the original on 28 November 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010. Jump up ^ Higgins, Alexander G. ; Jordans, Frank ; Engeler, Eliane ( 12 October 2007 ). `` Gore, scientists share Nobel Peace Prize ''. USA Today. Retrieved 11 January 2014. Jump up ^ Preuss, Paul ( 12 October 2007 ). `` Research News : Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to Climate Change Studies that win the Nobel Peace Prize ''. Berkeley Lab News Releases. Retrieved 11 January 2014. Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Lecture by the IPCC ( 2007 ) ''. Oslo : Norwegian Nobel Committee. 10 December 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2012. ^ Jump up to : `` Statement about the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize '' ( PDF ). Geneva : IPCC. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2012. Nobel Peace Prize General topics Laureates Committee ( members ) Institute Center Concert Oslo Spektrum Oslo City Hall World Summit By year 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 1901 -- 1925 1901 Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy 1902 Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat 1903 Randal Cremer 1904 Institut de Droit International 1905 Bertha von Suttner 1906 Theodore Roosevelt 1907 Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault 1908 Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer 1909 A.M.F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant 1910 International Peace Bureau 1911 Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried 1912 Elihu Root 1913 Henri La Fontaine 1914 1915 1916 1917 International Committee of the Red Cross 1918 1919 Woodrow Wilson 1920 Léon Bourgeois 1921 Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange 1922 Fridtjof Nansen 1923 1924 1925 Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes 1926 -- 1950 1926 Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann 1927 Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde 1928 1929 Frank B. Kellogg 1930 Nathan Söderblom 1931 Jane Addams / Nicholas Butler 1932 1933 Norman Angell 1934 Arthur Henderson 1935 Carl von Ossietzky 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1937 Robert Cecil 1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 International Committee of the Red Cross 1945 Cordell Hull 1946 Emily Balch / John Mott 1947 Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee 1948 1949 John Boyd Orr 1950 Ralph Bunche 1951 -- 1975 1951 Léon Jouhaux 1952 Albert Schweitzer 1953 George Marshall 1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1955 1956 1957 Lester B. Pearson 1958 Georges Pire 1959 Philip Noel - Baker 1960 Albert Lutuli 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld 1962 Linus Pauling 1963 International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. 1965 UNICEF 1966 1967 1968 René Cassin 1969 International Labour Organization 1970 Norman Borlaug 1971 Willy Brandt 1972 1973 Lê Đức Thọ ( declined award ) / Henry Kissinger 1974 Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō 1975 Andrei Sakharov 1976 -- 2000 1976 Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan 1977 Amnesty International 1978 Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin 1979 Mother Teresa 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1982 Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles 1983 Lech Wałęsa 1984 Desmond Tutu 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1986 Elie Wiesel 1987 Óscar Arias 1988 UN Peacekeeping Forces 1989 Tenzin Gyatso ( 14th Dalai Lama ) 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi 1992 Rigoberta Menchú 1993 Nelson Mandela / F.W. de Klerk 1994 Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat 1995 Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat 1996 Carlos Belo / José Ramos - Horta 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams 1998 John Hume / David Trimble 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières 2000 Kim Dae - jung 2001 -- present 2001 United Nations / Kofi Annan 2002 Jimmy Carter 2003 Shirin Ebadi 2004 Wangari Maathai 2005 International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei 2006 Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus 2007 Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2008 Martti Ahtisaari 2009 Barack Obama 2010 Liu Xiaobo 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman 2012 European Union 2013 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 2014 Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai 2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet 2016 Juan Manuel Santos 2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons 2007 Nobel Prize laureates Chemistry Gerhard Ertl ( Germany ) Literature Doris Lessing ( Zimbabwe, United Kingdom ) Peace Al Gore ( United States ) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Physics Albert Fert ( France ) Peter Grünberg ( Germany ) Physiology or Medicine Mario Capecchi ( United States ) Martin Evans ( United Kingdom ) Oliver Smithies ( United States ) Economic Sciences Leonid Hurwicz ( United States ) Eric Maskin ( United States ) Roger Myerson ( United States ) Nobel Prize recipients 1990 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize&oldid=757713830 '' Categories : 2007 awards 2007 in Norway Nobel Peace Prize Hidden categories : Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 1 January 2017, at 08 : 54. 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Question: who won the nobel peace prize in 2007
Answer: shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore