The Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change, know as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2007, 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”.

According to Ecologistas en Acción, the award is the result of the increasing global concern regarding the consequences of climate change and it is a token of satisfaction and appreciation to the work done by the IPCC since 1988.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's role has been especially outstanding. This year, the IPCC has published a series of reports that hold the humanity responsible for global warming and that provide some solutions. Precisely, the IPCC will celebrate its next meeting in Valencia, from 12 to 17 November.

The IPCC was created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is open to all United Nations and WMO members.

IPCC's role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. One of the main IPCC's activities is to assess periodically the knowledge on climate change.

In the year 2005, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director, Mohamed ElBaradei, was criticised by the environmental organizations, Ecologistas en Acción among them.