The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".

 

Almost 20 Dutch scientists are involved as a Contributor Lead Author or Lead Author for the IPCC. Some of them are involved in the Climate changes Spatial Planning Research Programme.