The former U.S.
vice-president Al Gore won on Monday the Nobel Peace Prize. He said that it was
time to declare peace with the planet. He shared the prize with the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of 2,500 scientists.
Mr. Gore said in Oslo,
at the City Hall in the applause of the 1000 guests, like Norway's King
Harald and Queen Sonja that “we have begun to wage war on the earth itself” and
that “It is time to make peace with the planet.”
He added: "The very web of life on which we depend is
being ripped and frayed. The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising,"
the Daily Telegraph reports.
Gore said that every day the world produces 70 million tones
of global-warming pollution, mainly carbon dioxide.
His part of the prize of the $US1.5 million ($1.72 million)
prize will go to climate work.
Referring to the generation that defeated fascism in the
‘40s, Gore said: "We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the
urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized
for war."
Gore is the second man from the town of Carthage, Tennessee, to win the Nobel Prize. The first
was U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in his role in the fostering of the
United Nations in 1945.
Gore said that the fact of saving the global environment
should be the principal core of “the world community.”
The ceremony was transmitted live in Bali, Indonesia,
at the UN climate conference, where officials from different countries are
meeting to come to a new deal regarding the cut of emissions, as Kyoto which will end by
2012.
Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, said that the impact of climate change could be
“extremely unsettling” for some of the poorest countries of the world.
He said that the warming could trigger the extinctions of
species and the rise of the temperature with 4.5 degrees Celsius higher that
the levels from 1980-1999 would be disastrous.
Now that the whole world is paying attention on Bali
Pachauri asked if the people who heave the power to take decisions on the
climate change will listen to the scientists.
The UN climate panel made up of 2500 scientist from 130
countries issued four reports regarding the threats of global warming.
Gore and Pachauri were to head to Bali
from Oslo. Gore
said that he would pressure the conference to adopt a mandate for a new treaty.
This one should replace the one in Kyoto
regarding the cut of emissions and it should be running by 2010, two years
sooner. Also heads of state should have meetings every three months before the
new treaty.
Gore said that U.S. and China, the biggest gas emitters,
were not fulfilling the demands of cutting the emissions, but they have to make
the biggest moves to save the planet.
