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Rajendra K. Pachauri

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born 20 August 1940) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in 2015, due to sexual harassment allegations. The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during his tenure. He resigned from IPCC in February 2015. At that time, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Governing Council also asked him to step down from the post of Director-General of the institute. The Governing Council of TERI in a meeting in February 2016 appointed Ashok Chawla, a Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service Office who was former Union Finance Secretary and former Chairman of the Competition Commission, as its new chairman. Ajay Mathur, a technocrat in the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, was appointed as the Director General of TERI by the Governing Council in July 2015.

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For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.

Earth, Ecosystems, Protection, Survival

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

Already, Lousy, Science, Stop Worrying, Worry, Worrying

The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.

Climate, Country, Developing, Fall, Impact, Water

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Change, Impact, Environmental, Planet, Nobody

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Real, Opportunity, Environmental, Rapidly, Lose, Small

We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

Globally, Larger, Philosophical, Produce, Progress, Way

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

Climate, Enough, Instrument, Large, Would Be

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

Science, Years, Doubt, Year, Clear

Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases

Carbon Emissions, Temperature, Use, High, Enough, Damaging

. . . 99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.

Affect, Casualties, Country, Energy, Impact, Plight

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

Assessment, Assessments, Energy, Ipcc, Literature, Peers

Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon intensive commodity.

Meat, Commodity, Climate Change, Carbon, Eat

What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's?. . . If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.

Accept, Differences, Maybe, Thinking, View, Views

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. . . most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

Average, Climate, Past, System, Unequivocal, Years

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

Climate, Close, Pestilence, War