AL GORE MERAIH NOBEL

Oslo: Seperti yang diduga, mantan Wakil Presiden Amerika Serikat Al Gore akhirnya memenangkan hadiah nobel tahun ini. Ketua Komite Nobel Norwegia Ole Danbolt menyatakan, Al Gore dinilai layak menerima hadiah nobel karena upayanya menyebarluaskan pengetahuan tentang perubahan iklim yang terjadi akibat ulah manusia.

Al Gore juga telah memberikan dasar pengetahuan bagaimana memerangi perubahan iklim tersebut. Al Gore dinilai memiliki komitmen yang kuat terhadap lingkungan. Hal ini terlihat dari aktivitasnya, baik di bidang politik maupun pendidikan. Al Gore telah lama menjadi politisi peduli lingkungan yang selalu memberikan wawasan atas perlunya langkah untuk menghadapi perubahan iklim.

Al Gore tidak sendiri. Komite Nobel Norwegia juga memberikan hadiah kepada sebuah badan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa yang khusus menangani perubahan lingkungan, Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC).(DOR)



OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference,” Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.

Brende said he joined political opponent Heidi Soerensen of the Socialist Left Party to nominate Gore as well as Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier before the nomination deadline expired Thursday.

“Al Gore, like no other, has put climate change on the agenda. Gore uses his position to get politicians to understand, while Sheila works from the ground up,” Brende said.

"I think climate change is the biggest challenge we face in this century," Brende said.

During eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including the Kyoto Treaty. Since leaving office in 2001 he has campaigned worldwide, including with his Oscar-nominated documentary on climate change called “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Norwegian lawmakers are among the thousands of people and groups with rights to nominate Nobel candidates. Others include members of national governments, past laureates, members of the awards committee and its staff, and many university professors.

The winner is traditionally announced in mid-October, with the prize always presented on the Dec. 10 anniversary of the death of its creator, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.