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, …
NEW DELHI, Feb. 4: Almost cocking a snook at the IPCC, India has decided to set up its own Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) to monitor climate change in the country. Announcing the setting up of the INCCA, Union forests and environment minister Jairam Ramesh said it would …
Indian Scientist Included In IPCC Bureau INDIA on Thursday stepped forward to express support for the beleaguered chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change R K Pachauri. But the support came after Mr Pachauri agreed to accommodate an Indian scientist from the environment ministry in the IPCC Bureau as …
Top Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri has refused to apologise for a false claim made in a landmark report by the UN climate change panel headed by him that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035, even as he admitted that the mistake had damaged the body's credibility. "You can't expect …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on Wednesday admitted that its credibility was damaged by the controversy over its 2007 report, which falsely claimed that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035. But he refused to apologise, saying he was …
The anti-climate change lobby is using the flaw in the IPCC study to condemn not just the Teri chief but the idea of climate change itself S L Rao / February 4, 2010, 0:41 IST RK PachauriFor the first time, Indians are experiencing an organised, systematic and vicious attack by …
Facing severe criticism in the wake of revelations that its landmark 2007 report contained some highly embarrassing mistakes, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Wednesday defended its procedures and said any report as wide-ranging and voluminous as the one it produced could not be
The latest statement by Delhi Platform on Himalayan glacial melt controversy. Says that critics have missed key issues and have ignored impacts & perceptions of people who live in the vicinity of glaciers. This document contains the statement by Delhi Platform on the Himalayan glaciers issue. It recommends both the …
CREDIBILITY issues continue to dog the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UN climate change body is now being charged that its claim on disappearing Amazonian forests is based on a report by environmental activists while that on disappearing ice from the world
Climate change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer complexity and urgency is defeating us. For the past 19 years-the first intergovernmental negotiations took place in Washington DC, USA in early 1991-the world has been arguing about what it knows but doesn't accept.
Frantic negotiations between heads of state and other high-ranking officials in the closing hours of the December climate summit managed to produce just a short, aspirational document, which left many sceptical about the chances of reaching a binding agreement next year.
COMMITMENTS by major nations to put curbs on greenhouse gas emissions appear to be insufficient in limiting the increase in global temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius. Many of the developed countries have submitted emission reduction targets that are lower than those they had announced in the run up to …
Sunita Narain, director, Centre of Science and Environment, says that her past battles with IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri do not detract from the truth of climate change and that climate skeptics should not take advantage of the `date mistake' in the IPCC report on Himalayan glaciers. Excerpts from an interview: …
The IPCC was tasked by the governments of the world to deliver an encyclopedic consensus on the state of knowledge about one of the most far-reaching yet divisive questions of our time. And this grouping of thousands of scientists, taking time out from their regular jobs has, for more than …
Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely …
The admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it grossly overstated the rate at which Himalayan glaciers were receding has hurt the credibility of the institution considerably. It is all very well for the IPCC to defend itself by saying that this was just one page in …
