TERI working on Sunderbans project
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08/08/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
Pachauri meets West Bengal Chief Minister
They discuss impact of climate change on State's ecosystem
TERI proposes setting up of climate-related research centre
Kolkata: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is working on a project on the Sunderbans delta, a fragile ecosystem now threatened by rising sea-levels, TERI director-general R.K. Pachauri said.
Dr. Pachauri, chief of the Nobel-prize winning United Nation's Intergovernmental panel on climate change, was talking to journalists after holding an hour-long discussion with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday. He described the meeting in the State Secretariat as "an enlightening one.'
"We discussed the impact of climate change on West Bengal and how the government would tackle this, especially in view of its dependence on fossil fuels,' he said.
Nuclear power as a clean fuel source was not discussed at the meeting.
The TERI also submitted a proposal to the Chief Minister to set up a climate-related research centre. "This State has a very diverse ecosystem with the Himalayas in the north and the Sunderbans in the south