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:
Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. 1/2 of the prize USA b. 1948
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1/2 of the prize Geneva, Switzerland Founded in 1988
The Nobel Peace Prize Medal : The face of the medal of the Norwegian Nobel Committee shows Alfred Nobel in a pose slightly different from that of the other medals. The inscription is the same.
The other side of the Nobel Peace Prize medal represents a group of three men forming a fraternal bond.
The inscription reads:
Pro pace et fraternitate gentium
translated "For the peace and brotherhood of men".
"Prix Nobel de la Paix", the relevant year, and the name of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is engraved on the edge of the medal.
The Nobel Peace Prize Medal was designed by Gustav Vigeland.
