Click to play videoNew Delhi: R K Pachauri, the chief scientist of United Nation’s climate panel, and former US Vice President, Al Gore, received the coveted Nobel Peace prize on Monday for raising the issue of global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.
Pachauri accepted the award on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, 1.6 million US dollars in cash and a diploma.
"We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency -- a threat to the survival of our civilisation that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here," said Gore in his acceptance speech.
Meanwhile, governments of several developed and developing nations are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to initiate work on a new international treaty to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
The Nobel Peace Prize winners are scheduled to join the climate talks in Bali on Wednesday.
(With PTI Inputs)
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