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Gore arrives for Nobel prize
07/12/2007 16:07 - (SA)
Oslo - Al Gore arrived in Norway on Friday to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, immediately displaying his green credentials by choosing to take an airport shuttle rather than a limousine to travel into Oslo city centre.
The man who used to be the next president of the United States, as he jokingly calls himself in his "An Inconvenient Truth" film about climate change, flew in with family members ahead of Monday's ceremony, local television said.
The 2007 prize was jointly awarded in October to 59-year-old Gore and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body of 3 000 scientists, for their work in highlighting global warming.
The winners will receive their 10-million-Swedish-kronor prize from Ole Mjoes, head of the five-member Nobel committee, at Monday's ceremony.
Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairperson, will receive the award on behalf of the panel.
- SAPA
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