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Pachauri's IPCC, Gore bag Nobel
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
Issue of climate change may now get priority, says IPCC chief
The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chaired by RK Pachauri and former US Vice-President Al Gore may help bring the awardees together to work out new strategies to counter problems originating due to climate change.
"I contacted him over the phone and congratulated him on winning the prestigious award and he said it was a privilege to share the award with the IPCC. We are planning to meet soon and will decide on how we might be able to work together. I was not expecting any awards for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore. I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organisation which has been awarded," said Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC and Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute.
Stressing on the need to create consensus between the developed and the developing countries in order to tackle climate change, Pachauri warned that one should not get carried away by individual country interests and should view the world as a whole while dealing with it.
"It is an honour that has been bestowed on me by the Nobel Prize Committee. In any case, this is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the work of the IPCC", added Pachauri.
He further stated that climate change has the potential to disrupt economic activity and social stability across the world and hence was glad that the Nobel Prize Committee has highlighted the fact. "I hope that the global community would see the urgency of taking action and to that extent the Nobel Prize obviously sends a very powerful message to the global community", said the Padma Bhushan recipient.
Pachauri hopes that the issue of climate change will come to the fore with the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC, a UN body comprised about 3,000 atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ice specialists, economists and other experts, is the world's top scientific authority on global warming and its impact.
The panel has been given the award for its efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change, said the Nobel committee.
The TERI office at the India Habitat Centre wore a festive look with dhol beating along with TERI workers distributing sweets to each other with the IPCC winning the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC was established in 1988 jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address the problem of potential global climate change.
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Impact'>Pachauri has been heading the IPCC since 2002 </span></span>and active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions.
The five-member Nobel Committee received 181 nominations this year for Peace Prize. The award ceremony will take place on December 10 on the death anniversary of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who had endowed the prestigious prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award in Oslo.
" There is nothing to clear as you can make out from the article. He is the chairperson of IPCC and has every right to bask in it's glory(he is the 1 who receives award on behalf of organisation) and so does the media. The award given to Gore(Gore himself has donated the award to his organisation Alto Paulto) is to emphasize the importance of global warming and it also gives a little uncertainty to 2008 Prez elections of USA: La Nobel.
Basically, it is the same old analogy of saying: Glass is half full or
1/2 empty."
Pachauri's IPCC, Gore bag Nobel
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
Issue of climate change may now get priority, says IPCC chief
The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chaired by RK Pachauri and former US Vice-President Al Gore may help bring the awardees together to work out new strategies to counter problems originating due to climate change.
"I contacted him over the phone and congratulated him on winning the prestigious award and he said it was a privilege to share the award with the IPCC. We are planning to meet soon and will decide on how we might be able to work together. I was not expecting any awards for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore. I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organisation which has been awarded," said Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC and Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute.
Stressing on the need to create consensus between the developed and the developing countries in order to tackle climate change, Pachauri warned that one should not get carried away by individual country interests and should view the world as a whole while dealing with it.
"It is an honour that has been bestowed on me by the Nobel Prize Committee. In any case, this is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the work of the IPCC", added Pachauri.
He further stated that climate change has the potential to disrupt economic activity and social stability across the world and hence was glad that the Nobel Prize Committee has highlighted the fact. "I hope that the global community would see the urgency of taking action and to that extent the Nobel Prize obviously sends a very powerful message to the global community", said the Padma Bhushan recipient.
Pachauri hopes that the issue of climate change will come to the fore with the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC, a UN body comprised about 3,000 atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ice specialists, economists and other experts, is the world's top scientific authority on global warming and its impact.
The panel has been given the award for its efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change, said the Nobel committee.
The TERI office at the India Habitat Centre wore a festive look with dhol beating along with TERI workers distributing sweets to each other with the IPCC winning the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC was established in 1988 jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to address the problem of potential global climate change.
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Impact'>Pachauri has been heading the IPCC since 2002 </span></span>and active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions.
The five-member Nobel Committee received 181 nominations this year for Peace Prize. The award ceremony will take place on December 10 on the death anniversary of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who had endowed the prestigious prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award in Oslo.
" There is nothing to clear as you can make out from the article. He is the chairperson of IPCC and has every right to bask in it's glory(he is the 1 who receives award on behalf of organisation) and so does the media. The award given to Gore(Gore himself has donated the award to his organisation Alto Paulto) is to emphasize the importance of global warming and it also gives a little uncertainty to 2008 Prez elections of USA: La Nobel.
Basically, it is the same old analogy of saying: Glass is half full or
1/2 empty."