IPCC chief has little hope from Copenhagen climate summit
By ians • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: EnvironmentNew Delhi, Nov 23, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) R.K. Pachauri Monday said he does not have much hope from next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen.
Rajendra Pachauri
“The kind of agreement that we were hoping for from the summit in Copenhagen seems to have diminished,” Pachauri, also the director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a think tank based here, said on the sidelines of a conference on urban development.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had earlier said that India is not going to accept any legally binding cuts on its greenhouse gas emissions.
At a conference last week, Ramesh said: “It seems there is a long haul before we arrive at an international commitment that is legally binding and in which legally binding commitments are taken by the developed countries”.
The Dec 7-18 summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is unlikely to produce any global deal on combating global warming, because rich countries responsible for the damage have neither promised significant emission cuts nor put on the table significant money to help developing countries fight climate change.
“We should put pressure on the developed countries to tackle the phenomenon of climate change,” said Pachauri, the man who heads the IPCC which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore for its seminal report on climate change that year.
Adding that India should do whatever it can at the domestic level to tackle climate change, Pachauri said: “The effects of climate change will put a big burden on our economy and development. So we cannot ignore it.
“We should therefore focus on climate change, otherwise its effects on the coming generations will be huge.”
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