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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- His resume keeps getting longer. And now former Vice President Al Gore can add Nobel Peace Prize winner to his list of accomplishments. He is being recognized for his environmental work and will share the coveted prize and $1.5 million award with the United Nations panel on climate change.
"It truly is a planetary emergency," Gore said at a press conference after the announcement. "I will be doing everything I can to best use this honor and recognition of this award as a way of speeding up the change in awareness."
Earlier this year, Gore won an Academy Award for his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Supporters are hoping he'll make the environmental issues it focused on the main issue in his run for the White House.
"We hope he jumps in the race," Nelson Jacobsen, who coordinates the Washington DC branch of ALGORE.org tells 9NEWS NOW. "By his own words, he wants to make the environment THE issue in 2008. He has our support," he says.
Gore has said he'll make a decision about a presidential bid by the end of October.
Written by Audrey Barnes9NEWS NOW
