UN Public Lecture on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy for All

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RECORDED UN Public Lecture by Dr. R K Pachauri, held on 28th June 2014

Addressing Climate Change and Sustainable Energy is Crucial to Meet India’s Energy Shortage

28 June 2014, New Delhi: “While India has made major progress in the supply of electricity and modern forms of energy, a large part of the population still lives in a state of energy deprivation,” said Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and -Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Dr. Pachauri was delivering the third United Nations Public Lecture in New Delhi today. He said, “The challenge to provide energy access for all has to be seen in the context of the problem of human- induced climate change, the impacts of which would create very high vulnerability for India in a large variety of ways.”

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About Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri

Dr. R.K. Pachauri is the Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute and Chancellor of TERI University. He is also the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988. IPCC along with former Vice President Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2007. Dr. Pachauri has been appointed as Senior Adviser, Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) from July 2012 prior to which he was the Founding Director of YCEI (from July 2009 to June 2012). Dr. Pachauri has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Economics. He has been on several international and national committees including membership of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, the Advisory Board on Energy (ABE) which reported directly to the Prime Minister of India, a Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and several others. He has been President (1988) and Chairman (1989-90) of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He has been President of the Asian Energy Institute since 1992. In April 1999, he was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan and held this appointment till April 2012. He has been active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions. Dr. Pachauri was awarded the ‘Padma Bhushan’ in 2001 by the President of India and he was also bestowed the “Officier De La Légion D’Honneur” by the Government of France in 2006. He was conferred with the “Padma Vibhushan”, second highest civilian award, for his services in the field of science and engineering in January 2008 by the President of India. He has been conferred with the ‘Commander of the Order of Leopold II’ by the King of the Belgians in July 2009; the ‘Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland’ by the Prime Minister of Finland in February, 2010, ‘The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ by His Majesty Akihito, Emperor of Japan in April 2010 and Mexican Order of the ‘Aztec Eagle’ by the President of Mexico in June 2012.

Articles by Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri

Green Governance
31 May 2014, Speaking Tree

R K Pachauri, Director, The Energy Research Institute, Delhi, and chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says India could take the lead in green governance if Team Modi takes the right initiatives.

Honour for India’s green heroes
3 May 2014, The Times of India

At the fifth edition of the Earth Care Awards instituted by JSW Foundation and The Times of India, ENDEV and Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT) received the ‘Community-based Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change’ award for tracing indigenous, salt-tolerant rice varieties and developing seed banks so the community would be more resilient to natural disasters.

India should turn to renewable sources of energy: RK Pachauri
3 May 2014, The Times of India

Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, chief guest at the Earth Care Awards, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and director general of The Energy and Resources Institute, spoke on why India need not go down the same path as the developed world. Excerpts from an interview.

Micro-measures can have macro-impact
3 May 2014, The Times of India
TCS aim to extend green practices such as waste reduction and water efficiency into the supply chain by putting pressure on their suppliers. “The computers that we currently purchase are green-rated ,” explained Aniruddha Agnihotri, head of health, safety and environment at TCS.

A silent killer that’s not an election issue
2 May 2014, The Hindu
The problem of kerosene and biomass use, which kills millions of Indians at home each year, is being shamefully neglected

Negative changes to positive opportunities
15 November 2013, Hindustan Times
The human condition in the future would depend on how we manage the scarcity of water, energy and food

World’s climate change challenges are interlinked
14 November 2013, Hindustan Times

It is clear that the challenges the world faces in energy, water and food security are interlinked. Consequently, if strategies have to be developed for tackling one or the other aspect of this integrated challenge we would need to consider comprehensive and critical aspects of managing supply and demand for energy, water and food in a manner that ensures security in each of these.

News Articles


India needs new energy regime: Pachauri
[Date: 29 June 2014, Source: Business Standard]

Opting for coal-based energy ‘wasteful approach’: IPCC
[Date: 29 June 2014, Source: Mint]

‘Sustainable energy crucial to meet India’s energy shortage’
[Date: 29 June 2014, Source: The Statesman]

Opting for coal-based energy ‘wasteful approach’ by government: IPCC
[Date: 29 June 2014, Source: The Economic Times]

Tap renewable energy sources, says Pachauri
[Date: 29 June 2014, Source: The Tribune]

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