The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
Amid mounting attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a small number of its volunteer leadership has tried to respond to the horde of bloggers and reporters as well as explain themselves to colleagues. Prominent among them has been ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Science …
Climatologists use model-based 'scenarios' to provide plausible descriptions of how the future might unfold when evaluating uncertainty about the effects of human actions on climate. The traditional method of establishing these scenarios was a time-consuming sequential process, each discipline taking turns to add data and complexity. As Richard Moss and …
As calls for reform intensify following recent furores about e-mails, conflicts of interest, glaciers and extreme weather, five climatologists propose ways forward for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their suggestions range from reaffirming the panel
Do you think you and TERI are being targetted by a section of the British media for a reason other than environmental probity? You may be aware that the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC , which has been tracking the rise in the number of lobbyists and their …
A factual mistake is threatening to hijack the global climate agenda R.K. Pachauri is facing the worst crisis of his stint as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which he is heading since 2002. With climate sceptics mounting relentless challenge to the credibility of climate science …
A roomful of reporters, whirring TV cameras and popping camera flashes. Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the world's climate czar, is used to such attention. As chairman of a UN body appointed to study the impact of climate change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore, he earned plaudits. …
Conflict of interest in formulating climate policy and heading TERIi, which gets sizeable research funding in areas like glaciology and renewable energy and is a big player in green business opportunities.
The UN climate panel headed by Rajendra Pachauri faced fresh allegations on Sunday with a British paper claiming that the data contained in its report on the potential of wave power and drop in north Africa
The Hague: The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said on Friday. According to Dutch authorities, only 26% of the country is below sea level, …
In a strong show of support that the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needed desperately, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday backed the scientific conclusions of the UN panel and said
Backing R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who is under criticism for the goof-up in the organisation
Leaders from Bhutan, Norway and Finland, among other countries, today supported Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri on the glacier melting issue and said the recent attacks on the IPCC and climate change by no means damaged the credibility of the institution or the science.
In a bid to help fill scientific knowledge gap at the sub-regional level, India for the first time has agreed to provide key institutional inputs to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report, due in 2014. The Union Environment Ministry, in October last year, had …
NEW DELHI: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R.K. Pachauri, battling calls for resignation due to a mistake in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers, found support from both the United Nation
New Delhi: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the Indian government fully backed R K Pachauri, the beleaguered chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Even as he took potshots at the weakness of the global climate science panel over the recent controversial revelations, Ramesh said the government …
