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Mr. Brende said he joined political opponent Heidi Soerensen of the Socialist Left Party to nominate Mr. Gore and Ms. Watt-Cloutier before the nomination deadline expired yesterday. "Al Gore, like no other, has put climate change on the agenda. Mr. Gore uses his position to get politicians to understand, while Sheila
works from the ground up," Mr. Brende said.
Ms. Watt-Cloutier, 53, originally from Quebec and now living in Iqaluit, Nunavut, is the chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an organization representing about 155,000 Inuit living in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia.
She has worked on a range of social and environmental issues affecting Inuit and has most recently focused on global climate change. She has received awards and honours for her work, including Norway's Sophie environment prize in 2005 for drawing attention to the impact of climate change and pollution on the traditional lifestyles of the Arctic's indigenous people and others.
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National legislators are among the thousands of people and groups with rights to nominate Nobel candidates.
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