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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Part for Confronting 'Great Climatic Challenges'. By Darren Samuelsohn, Greenwire, October 9, 2009. "President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today in part for what the award's organizers said was a 'more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting'... 'Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning,' Obama said during a Rose Garden speech. Moments later, the president highlighted his early efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons and halt the threat of global warming -- work cited by the Nobel Prize committee that is a long way from completion. 'These challenges can't be met by any one leader or any one nation,' Obama said. 'And that's why my administration has worked to establish a new era of engagement in which all nations must take responsibility for the world we seek.' Turning to global warming, Obama added, 'We cannot accept the growing threat posed by climate change, which could forever damage the world that we pass on to our children -- sowing conflict and famine, destroying coastlines and emptying cities. And that's why all nations must now accept their share of responsibility for transforming the way that we use energy.'"