Rajendra K. Pachauri Quotes About Climate Change

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

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Change, Impact, Environmental

  "Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come". Rajendra K. Pachauri's speech at the news conference during the presentation of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Yokohama, Japan, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2014.

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Real, Opportunity, Environmental

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Science, Years, Doubt

• 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

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Carbon Emissions, Littles, Fossils

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

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Meat, Commodity, Climate Change

  "Taking the Food Crisis Personally" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Philosophical, Progress, Development

  "Nobel peace prize winner: 'It's all about green energy'" by Rajendra K. Pachauri, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

• ...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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Country, Impact, World

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Country, Fall, Impact

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Thinking, Views, Differences

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Past, Years, Average

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

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Assessment, Energy, Peers

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

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  War, Climate, Pestilence

• 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]

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Climate, Would Be, Enough

• 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.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Ecosystems, Survival, Earth

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