Mr. Rajendra Pachauri participated last 26 april 2008 in EP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change before an audience of MEPs.

Unsustainable development

Mr Pachauri stressed the need for industrialised countries to take into account the developing world's concerns on climate change policy. “Some poorer countries have had no responsibility for the increase in greenhouse gases”, he said, “and yet these are the countries affected most by the impact of climate change.”  "These issues and realities should be kept in mind, he said”. Climate change, he added, is only part of a greater problem: “that of unsustainable development.”
 

On Tuesday 1 April 2008, the Committee will vote on its interim report – drafted by Karl Heinz Florenz (EPP-ED, DE) – on “the scientific facts of climate change: findings and recommendations for decision-making”.