Congratulations to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice-President Al Gore jointly sharing the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting Global Warming!
And congratulations to Devra Davis, Ph.D, MPH, for her work as a lead author with the IPCC from 1998- 2002. The former vice-president said he was “deeply honored” by the award, and it was “even more significant” that he was sharing it with the IPCC, an organization which has worked for years on the issue of global warming.
Read More About the Award
The Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., “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.”
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
In 2007 Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the large team of scientists who were part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Devra Lee Davis PhD, MPH, was part of the IPCC team as one of the lead authors on their assessment of climate mitigation policies (1999-2005).
University of Chicago Magazine article on Devra Davis’ long history of fighting manmade environmental and health hazards.
Here’s a blurb explaining Davis’ role on the Nobel award-winning team.
“In 1997, for instance, shortly before the UN’s Kyoto Protocol Climate Conference, she was working as a consultant to the World Health Organization. The conference, she realized, could help raise awareness of the potential health dangers of fossil fuels. Correlating the amount of coal soot in the air with bronchitis and early deaths, she and about 30 colleagues estimated that there were 700,000 avoidable deaths annually. They predicted that, if coal fuel continued at current levels, the death toll would rise to about 8 million by 2020. She was a lead author on the paper, published in Lancet and distributed at the Kyoto conference, where Vice President Al Gore became aware of it. The paper ultimately ended up in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report for which Gore and thousands of scientists, including Davis, received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.”
Read More About Devra Davis
The September-October 2010 edition of University of Chicago Magazine featured a piece on EHT Founder Devra Davis.
“From asbestos to cell phones, Devra Lee Davis warns of potential public-health crises.”
What Is The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
(IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change work is shared among three Working Groups (1. Physical Scientific Aspects, 2. Consequences and Vulnerability of Socio-economic and Natural Systems, 3. Mitigation), a Task Force, and a Task Group. Read More.
Davis, Devra Lee and Working Group on Public Health and Fossil-Fuel Combustion. “Short-term improvements in public health from global-climate policies on fossil-fuel combustion: an interim report.” The Lancet 350.9088 (1997): 1341-9. Presented to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto, 1997.
Coordinating Lead Authors
Jean-Charles Hourcade (France), Priyadarshi Shukla (India)
Lead Authors
Luis Cifuentes (Chile), Devra Davis (USA), Jae Edmonds (USA), Brian Fisher (Australia), Emeric Fortin (France), Alexander Golub (Russian Federation), Olav Hohmeyer (Germany), Alan Krupnick (USA), Snorre Kverndokk (Norway), Richard Loulou (Canada), Richard Richels (USA), Hector Segenovic (Argentina), Kenji Yamaji (Japan) Contributing Authors: Christoph Boehringer (Germany), Knut Einar Rosendahl (Norway), John Reilly (USA), Kirsten Halsnæs (Denmark), Ferenc Toth (Germany), ZhongXiang Zhang (Netherlands) Review Editors: Lorents Lorentsen (Norway), Oyvind Christopherson (Norway), Mordechai Shechter (Israel)
Additional Publications
Davis DL, Miller V, and Reisa JJ. “Potential Public Health Consequences of Global Climate Change, Preparing for Climate Change.” Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Preparing for Climate Change: a Cooperative Approach, Washington, D.C., Government Institute (1988): 366-376.
Davis DL, Krupnick A, and McGlynn G, Eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on Estimating the Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies, March 27-29, 2000. OECD. 2000, November.
Cifuentes, Luis, Devra Davis, et al. “Hidden health benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation.” Science 293.5533 (2001): 1257-1259.
Bell ML, et al. “International expert workshop on the analysis of the economic and public health impacts of air pollution: workshop summary.” Environ Health Perspect 110.11 (2002): 1163-8.
Bell, Michelle L., Devra Davis, et al. “Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation.” Environmental Health 7.41 (2008).
