Rajendra K. Pachauri Quotes

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . He held the post from 2002 until his resignation in February 2015, due to sexual harassment allegations. The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize during his tenure. At that time, The Energy and Resources Institute 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.

✵ 20. August 1940 – 13. February 2020

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Rajendra K. Pachauri Quotes

“[To help combat climate change] Give up meat for one day (per week) initially, and decrease it from there. In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity.”

Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Eat less red meat to help the environment, UN climate expert says,” interview with The Telegraph (7 September 2008) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2699173/Eat-less-red-meat-to-help-the-environment-UN-climate-expert-says.html

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

Rajendra K. Pachauri

Rajendra K. Pachauri (2014), as cited in: Ganpat, Wayne G. (2014), Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Small Island Developing States. p. xxi