Climate change: G8 must make stronger commitments - Pachauri

United Nations, New York, 20 July 2009 - The Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP), Mr Rajendra Pachauri has told a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York that the impacts of climate change are going to get "progressively serious".

Briefing the media on a recent meeting of leading climate change and environment experts in Venice, Italy Mr Pachauri said the Group of Eight (G8) meeting that took place earlier this month yielded "mixed results".

He said, "they've [G8 leaders] clearly ignored what the IPCC came up with. We had clearly established the trajectory by which we could reach stabilisation of the Earth's atmosphere and stabilisation of the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions such that temperature increase will not exceed 2 to 2.4 degrees Celsius."

Mr Pachauri added that while G8 leaders agreed on a two degree Celsius increase as being the limit that could be accepted, they failed to accept the global requirement that global emissions peak by 2050.

View the entire press conference (Real media, 35 minutes):
http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressconference/2009/pc090720pm.rm

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Web site:
http://www.ipcc.ch/

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Web site:
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Seal the Deal! 2009 Web site:
www.sealthedeal2009.org/

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• United Nations
• UN
• ICPP
• Rajendra Pachauri
• Climate change
• Environment
• Global warming
• Greenhouse gases
• Emissions
• Emissions targets

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