je.st
news
Tag: pachauri
IPCC report is roadmap to Paris climate deal Pachauri
2014-10-28 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Scientists and delegates from more than 100 governments are meeting in Copenhagen this week to thrash out the definitive round-up of climate science. By the end of the week, they will have approved the final building block of the UN climate panels fifth assessment report a 100-page document bringing together five reports released over the last six years on the state of the worlds climate. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002, told delegates...
Tags: report
paris
deal
climate
India: Budget should have highlighted energy security issue: RK Pachauri
2014-07-12 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: He said the Finance Minister should have highlighted the overall issue of energy security for India. "Should any geo-political developments in the region from where we import the bulk of our oil lead to say a 50 percent increase in oil prices. The effect on the economy could be disastrous," he said. "Hence, the Finance Minister could have highlighted the objectives of attaining higher energy security, lowering environmental pollution and tackling global climate change through measures to attain...
Tags: security
issue
energy
india
India: AAPs free water policy may end up in lot of wastage: Pachauri
2014-02-09 03:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSN: The AAP government's policies on water and electricity are well intended but not the best way to achieve desired goals as supply of over 600 litres of free water to Delhi residents may end up in a lot of wastage, director general TERI R K Pachauri has warned. "The intentions are very good but I am not sure this is the best way of going about it. In the case of water and even electricity firstly you have got to look at the whole economics of water supply and power supply," he told PTI in an interview...
Q&A: The IPCC's Rajendra K. Pachauri on climate tech
2014-01-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: As the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which deals with the physical science of climate change, is launched this week (30 January), SciDev.Net speaks to Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the panel's chair, about science and the climate policy challenges ahead. Ahead of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2014 in February, Pachauri tells SciDev.Net why technology transfer does not worry him and how developing nations have the capacity...
Tags: tech
climate
pachauri
ipccs
Pachauri to step down as IPCC boss in 2015
2013-09-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian News International: The Indian leading the United Nation's climate science arm is planning to step down from his position in 2015. Rajendra Pachauri told about his plans to Speigel Online. He is not a scientist himself, despite the fact that he leads a group of climate scientists looking at global warming. The 73-year-old is rather a railroad engineer, an economist and a consultant with lucrative contracts in the energy industry, Fox News reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) he helms began...