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Battling Climate Change by Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Development
Battling Climate Change by Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Development. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri. Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). It is now becoming increasingly apparent that the global community, over several decades, has pursued a path of development which is clearly not sustainable. In the context of climate change, we are now getting increasing evidence, based on observations, based on data that is available, that the path of development that we have adopted is leading to consequences with changes in the climate that clearly have extremely harmful impacts and hold the potential for far more serious impacts in the future. The IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which functions under the umbrella of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Prog...
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