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2007 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The
2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore Jr. 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. In making the award, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee noted that 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.
Joel Scheraga's Contributions
to the IPCC
Joel Scheraga has contributed to several
IPCC Assessments. He
was a Lead Author of the
1997 IPCC North American Regional
Assessment. In 1995, he was a Contributing Author to the Working
Group II chapter on “Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate
Change Impacts and Adaptations” that appeared in the IPCC Second
Assessment Report. He also served as an Expert Reviewer of the
Second Assessment Report. And he served as an Assisting Lead Author for
the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change
Impacts and Adaptations.
EPA Administrator Recognizes
EPA Nobel Peace Prize Honorees
Stephen L.
Johnson, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, recognized Joel Scheraga, and 27 other scientists, as
EPA Nobel Peace Prize Honorees on November 26, 2007. In a
memorandum
sent to all EPA employees, the Administrator noted
that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize “was shared by former Vice
President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), whose contributors included a number of EPA’s
world-class experts.” He went on to say, “I would like to
applaud those EPA experts who have been honored by the Nobel
Committee for their substantial contributions to the work of the
IPCC.”
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