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Steelworkers and Sierra Club will educate members, promote global warming solutions and push for investment in green economy

March 31, 2008 -- PITTSBURGH - The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership of the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, today joined the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded by Vice President Al Gore, as part of its rapidly expanding coalition of organizations taking steps to solve the climate crisis.    » read more »

13 December 2007 -- The head of the United Nations Climate Change Conference is warning that a deadlock between the United States and the European Union over greenhouse gas emission targets may derail the conference.

From the start, officials here have emphasized that the aim of the Climate Change Conference is only to get negotiations started on a new global effort against climate change. These negotiations are to lead to a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which will expire in 2012.    » read more »

13 December 2007 -- Former U.S. vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore blamed the United States on Thursday for blocking progress at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali. He urged delegates to forge ahead without the U.S.

In an impassioned hour-long speech interrupted many times by applause, former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said the United States was stopping progress at the U.N. Climate Change talks in Bali.    » read more »

Dec 10, 2007 -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Today, Senator John Edwards released the following statement:

“Today’s award by the Nobel Committee recognizes three decades of Vice President Gore’s prescient and compelling advocacy for the future of the Earth.

His passionate voice and calls for change have echoed throughout America and the world and sparked a true movement to save our plant from global warming.    » read more »

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OSLO, NORWAY and WASHINGTON, D.C. — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a triumph for the planet and its inhabitants, who will increasingly struggle to adjust as the world warms.    » read more »

Efforts on Global Warming Set Stage for Progress

WASHINGTON, DC (October 12, 2007) – News that former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is a fitting recognition of their roles in elevating climate change to one of the world’s greatest areas of concern, according to Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).    » read more »