Al Gore
2007 Nobel Peace Laureate
Former US Vice President
Businessman and Environmentalist

According to a 27 February 2007 article in The Concord Monitor, “Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases”.

Gore co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste in 1978–79, and hearings on Global Warming in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

On Earth Day 1994, Gore launched the worldwide GLOBE program, a hands-on, school-based education and science activity that made extensive use of the Internet to increase awareness.

Beginning in the fall of 2006, Al Gore and a team of climate change scientists and educators have trained more than 1,000 individual volunteers to give a version of his presentation on the effects and solutions for Global Warming, to community groups throughout the United States. The presentation and training program are based on the message Gore has been giving for more than two decades, which inspired the documentary film and book, An Inconvenient Truth, winner of 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

An immensely dedicated environmentalist, Al Gore has been at the forefront of the Global Warming campaign to spread his message.

Gore after receiving the 2007, Nobel Peace Prize said he was ” deeply honored … We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”

Al Gore resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his family