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Rajendra Pachauri and the third part of the IPCC report

Date: April 30, 2007, posted by Alexander Goerlach
 
Once again Rajendra Pachauri will be in the focus of world public. The scientist from India who is the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will present on May 4th the third and last part of the groups report on climate change.
 
It is hardly known that a group of scientists - 450 to be precisely- has attracted so much attention from politicians and journalists around the globe.
 

Pachauri during a panel session
 
Bangkok will see another run on the scientists. The third part of the report the group is presenting will face solutions for climate change whose reasons and impacts have been the content of the first two parts of the panel's research. It is entitled "Mitigation of Climate Change".
 
The "impact-part", better the 23 pages long summary out of 1000, which is a wrap up for politicians has caused a lot of troubles and formed strange allies such as the US together with China and Saudi-Arabia. Those nations negotiated until dawn to diminuish the sound of the scientist's warnings; many times a "probably" was demanded. USA and China fear losses for their economies. The second part has been disclosed on Friday April 6th which was Good Friday this year in the Christian Calendar. A good feeling however neither the report nor the behaviour of certain delegations could create.
 
Pachauri knows the trouble the report of the IPCC creates and he wants it this way. Otherwise it might not show any impact as reports of scientists usually do. Pachauri is the Director General of Tata Energy Research Institute). This institute originally works and provides professional support in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions, and corporate organizations. Pachauri has taken charge as Chairman of IPCC from April 2002 onwards.
 


Mitigation is in our hands
 

Mitigation now must not be done half-hearted Pachauri emphazises wherever he goes at the moment. Things that have to be done - the report will name a lot of them - might cost something in the beginning. However and this is what we know since the Stern-Report on the Economic costs of climate change it will be a minimum price compared what we have to pay if there will be no mitigation at all today.
 
 
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