He said the melting glaciers could cause a rise in sea levels which could collapse Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets. This in turn, he said, could have a disastrous effect on countries like Mauritius and Bangladesh.
Gore, who was US President Bill Clinton's deputy in 2000, made the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, after which he was seen as a champion of environmental issues and climate change.
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations said the developing countries, including India and China, are unwilling to sign up a new global climate change pact to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012 as the rich world has failed to set a clear example on cutting carbon emissions. He said rich countrieslike the US, had failed to take the action needed to convince developing nations to sign a deal to help stabilise emissions.
India and China need to chart a different path to develop low carbon economies to combat global warming, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri said. In both India and China, there is now a serious debate. "In India I can see it for sure because the prime minister is quite concerned about this issue. He set up the advisory council on climate change," he said.
Developing economies will have to come forward to devise their own technologies for the energy sector rather than looking up to the developed nations, R K Pachauri, chief of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in New Delhi on Monday. In his first public appearance after the organisation he headed won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, Pachauri said that there is a clear line of distinction between the energy needs of developing and developed nations.
IPCC, headed by Dr Pachauri, has a team of dedicated scientists from various countries who have won the prize for their pioneering work in the field of environment.
While the US and Russia had destroyed thousands of warheads following their treaty on disarmament, India, Pakistan and North Korea had swelled their stockpiles.
'Our self interest lies in ensuring that this planet is in good health,' says Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, IPCC Chairman.
'There will be morbidity, there will be mortality. Other health conditions are going to get much worse,' says IPCC Chairman Dr R K Pachauri.
'There is not a parallel on this planet, in any field of endeavour as you have in the case of the IPCC.' Dr R K Pachauri defends the science involved in drafting the reports on climate change.
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Supporting India's quest for nuclear power, United Nations climate panel's chief scientist R K Pachauri has said that country should pursue it to contain emission and meet energy needs.
R K Pachauri, chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in the effort to structure a new climate change regime by 2009, there had been no major breakthroughs since the creation of the Bali action plan, but 'all eyes are focused on the G-8 summit' of industrialised countries. The Bali action plan was adopted as a two-year process to finalise a building agreement on Climate change at a UN conference in Indonesia last year December.
Asked about his initial reactions on the IPCC winning the Nobel Prize, Dr Pachauri said he was "deeply humbled by the honour that has been bestowed on me by the Nobel Committee. In any case, this is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the IPCC's work."
'We know our glaciers are melting very rapidly.' Dr R K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, outlines the implications for India.
'Once a government has approved a report then they necessarily have to accept ownership of it.' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Dr R K Pachauri in an extensive interview.
The main "culprit" for CO2 emissions is coal-based energy which has 24 per cent share in India's emissions and 41 per cent worldwide. While coal accounts for 25 per cent of energy, the role of renewables is 13 per cent. Of these, wind, solar and bio masses contribute just 4.1 per cent.
More private vehicles, according to R K Pachauri, is not the right way forward. On the contrary, it would take the world farther from solutions to climate change. Tata Motors' rivals, most recently Suzuki Motor Corp chairman O Suzuki, have often wondered aloud how the Rs 1 lakh car would fare on the parameters of safety and environment suitability.
'The food security along the coastal region will be severely affected.'
The challenge of climate change puts the onus on us to demand much more than the pusillanimous actions that the world is prepared to give.
The experts said that climate change is not only raising temperatures and making India's heatwaves hotter, but also changing weather patterns that further drive dangerous weather extremes.
At a virtual press conference to launch the report, Inger Anderson, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, said, "Climate change is here and now. No one is safe. Despite warnings from so many years, the world did not listen. We need to act now. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will not only limit climate change but also reduce air pollution."
A day after quitting as Chairman of UN's prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, TERI Director General R K Pachauri has been admitted to a city-based hospital.
Buffeted by allegations of sexual harassment, R K Pachauri on Tuesday quit as chairman of United Nation's prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose meeting here he has avoided.
'Because of the melting of ice as well as irresponsible human behaviour such as throwing soil and plastic into the sea, there has been a rise in temperature.' 'I fear there will be direct and dangerous consequences for us.'
Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy, says Kerry.
'It is high time that we act instead of just talking about how and why the climate is changing.'
Pachauri is scheduled to speak in China from August 22-28.Thereafter, he is scheduled to attend a meeting in Tokyo.
The advisory body had not met for the past three years.
Yet the international response to this threat caused by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs has been feeble, they said.
The Aam Aadmi Party's government's policies on water and electricity are well intended but not the best way to achieve the desired goals as the supply of over 600 litre of free water to Delhi residents may end up in a lot of wastage, Directer General of The Energy and Resources Institute R K Pachauri has warned.
With climate change impacts worsening and affecting the poor and most vulnerable, governments urgently need to scale up adaptation
A research shows that the health of the majestic Gangotri glacier that feeds the river Ganges has been affected, as the maximum temperature in the region has shot up by 0.9 degree Celsius and snowfall reduced by 37 cm annually.
The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report highlights gaps worldwide in finance, technology, and knowledge.
'If we want a better life, we have to treat nature better, and behave properly.' 'That's nature's message to us.'
Worse still, the cities ranked second, third and fourth for their poor air quality are also in India.
The woman says she worked closely with the former TERI chief for four months in 2008
The 2C target was always somewhat arbitrary as a threshold for preventing the worst effects of global warming in the form of rising sea levels and more severe and frequent storms, floods and droughts.
Rights activist Kailash Satyarthi is the eight Indian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Rediff.com takes a look at other Indians or Indian-origin people, who have been awarded the honour.
The average global temperature between January and October has been 0.68 degrees Celsius higher than the 20th century's average global temperature of 14.1 degree C.
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