AEA Shares in Nobel Peace Prize

Four AEA experts, John Watterson, Justin Goodwin, Keith Brown and Mike Woodfield, have shared in the winning of a Nobel Peace Prize through their work with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The IPCC was created almost twenty years ago in response to growing concern about the risk of anthropogenic climate change. The General Assembly of the United Nations asked the two UN bodies most engaged in the issue, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, to set up this Panel to provide balanced, objective policy advice.

The Nobel peace prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change jointly with former US Vice-President Al Gore.