Campaigners hail Gore's Nobel award

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The former US vice president, who shared the award with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he was "honoured" to become a Nobel Laureate.

And the environmentalist, whose Oscar-winning hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth aimed to highlight the dangers of global warming, warned the world faced "a true planetary emergency".

"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level," he said.

While the award refuelled speculation that Mr Gore may launch a second Presidential bid, most observers said another attempt at the White House was unlikely.

The Nobel committee said Mr Gore and the IPCC were given the award 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."

Mr Gore and the panel are the second laureates to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental action, after Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai was given the award in 2004.

In recent years the awarding committee has broadened its interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts to recognise action on human rights, democracy, the environment and tackling poverty.

This year the Nobel Foundation warned that climate change may induce large-scale migration and greater competition for resources - which could place heavy burdens on vulnerable countries and increase the risk of violent conflicts and wars.

The committee said Mr Gore "is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted".