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August 3, 2010

IPCC Chief Pachauri: Climate Talks in Cancún Are Very Important
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The head of the UN’s panel on climate change spoke in Mexico City on
Monday and urged world leaders to reach an agreement to cap carbon
emissions at the upcoming UN climate talks in Cancún.

Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change: "If we want to limit temperature increase to about two degrees
Celsius, two to 2.4 degrees, then we have estimated that global
emissions will have to peak no later than 2015. And that’s what makes
Cancún very important. I think it’s absolutely essential that we get
some agreement to bring about some tangible efforts for reducing
emissions of greenhouse gases, because we don’t have the luxury of time
if we want to limit temperature increase to, say, around two degrees
Celsius. Now, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it later, but if you do
it later, it’ll be much more complex and much more expensive."



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