Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by Vuzman on February 01 2007 11:00:50

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After more than 20 years of working on environmental issues, playing a key part in forming the Kyoto protocol in 1997, and recently with the film "An Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore has thrust the global climate change issue into the public consciousness. He has been so successful with this that even President Bush has admitted that global climate change is a problem.

For putting the dangers posed by climate change on the global political agenda he has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in a shared nomination with Canadian environmentalist Sheila Watt-Cloutier.

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After more than 20 years of working on environmental issues, playing a key part in forming the Kyoto protocol in 1997, and recently with the film "An Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore has thrust the global climate change issue into the public consciousness. He has been so successful with this that even President Bush has admitted that global climate change is a problem.

For putting the dangers posed by climate change on the global political agenda he has now been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in a shared nomination with Canadian environmentalist Sheila Watt-Cloutier.

Reported by Aftenposten