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    27 : Climate Change, Conflict over Scarce Resources and the Nobel Peace Prize

    M. Shahidul Islam

    23 October 2007

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former United States Vice- President, Al Gore, shared the Nobel peace prize for 2007 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', according to the Nobel Committee's citation.