A Nobel contribution to Peace Prize

A professor in The University's School Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering is celebrating after helping an international panel of climate change experts win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

This year's prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and former United States Vice President Al Gore.

Professor Geoff Levermore is a UK-nominated Lead Author on the IPCC working group that deals with mitigating the effects of climate change. He has also helped write and edit a key chapter on residential and commercial buildings in the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Professor Levermore, who is Professor of the Built Environment, received a letter of congratulation from the chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, who wrote: "The fact that the IPCC has earned the recognition that this award embodies, is really a tribute to your knowledge, hard work and application."

Professor Levermore said he was delighted that the IPCC had achieved "the recognition it deserves". He said the research had provided the basis on which governments took their decisions on limiting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment.

The Nobel citation says that the award made to the IPCC and Al Gore is "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".

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