Noted Nobel Laurate and the Chairman of International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Mr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri will work for the Development of Bihar. He was addressing a workshop on the state plan of climate change.
Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi requested him to be the advisory of Bihar State Action Plan on Climate Change (BSAPCC) and he gladly accepted the proposal. Bihar Govt. has agreed to formulate BSAPCC before March 31 2012. IPCC was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 along with former US Vice-President Al Gore
Dr. Pachauri, an Special Class Railway Apprentice, has also been director general of TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University. He has also been the chairman of the governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF), as well as the chairman of the board of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society. He also serves as the head of Yale’s Climate and Energy Institute.
He also suggested to Modi to constitute a State Knowledge Management Centre on Climate Change. It has already been done by the MP government. He added, “Bihar should also introduce a green building code like Tamil Nadu, which provides tax rebate to buildings following the code”.
The global surface temperature will increase by 1.1 to 6.4 degree Celsius in 21st century, if the world’s response to climate change remains as lackadaisical as it so far has been, the Nobel laureate said. “United Nations’ agency, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has not done enough to prevent imminent dangerous climatic implications,” he added.
“If the world does not cast off its inertia to climate change, at the end of the 21st century deglaciation of various ice-sheets would lead to rise in the sea level by four to six metres. … It will have adverse effects on indigenous population through extreme weather conditions, coastal flooding, reduced water supply, increased malnutrition and poor yield. People will not get water to drink,” Pachauri warned.