Nov 03 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)
India must revisit plan on climate change: Pachauri
The world will have to totally phase out fossil fuels in power generation by the end of this century and reduce their use to 20% by 2050 if disastrous consequences of climate change are to be avoided, the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its synthesis report released in Copenhagen on Sunday .It said if all nations failed to bring greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by year 2100, climate change would leave “severe, widespread and irreversible impacts“.
The report, seen as the most reliable source of climate information, will form the basis for talks leading, hopefully , to a global deal in Paris next year on reducing emissions. The findings and recommendations of the synthesis report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on completely phasing out fossil fuels are expected to be discussed thoroughly when more than 190 countries would assemble for a climate conference in Lima, Peru, next month.
Expectedly, representatives from Saudi Arabia and other oil exporting countries protested against such drastic recommendations during the consultations round before accepting the IPCC report in Copenhagen.
In his advice to the Indian government, IPCC chairman R K Pachauri told TOI, “India has a national action plan on climate change that, I think, will need to be revisited in the light of the findings of the report. I hope that will be beneficial.” Asked whether he envisaged a world that would be without fossil fuels, Pachau ri said, “We have brought out very clearly (in the report) that if we want to keep global temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius from 1880 level, then by the end of this century, fossil fuel based power generation will be phased out unless weuse carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility technology”.
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The report, seen as the most reliable source of climate information, will form the basis for talks leading, hopefully , to a global deal in Paris next year on reducing emissions. The findings and recommendations of the synthesis report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on completely phasing out fossil fuels are expected to be discussed thoroughly when more than 190 countries would assemble for a climate conference in Lima, Peru, next month.
Expectedly, representatives from Saudi Arabia and other oil exporting countries protested against such drastic recommendations during the consultations round before accepting the IPCC report in Copenhagen.
In his advice to the Indian government, IPCC chairman R K Pachauri told TOI, “India has a national action plan on climate change that, I think, will need to be revisited in the light of the findings of the report. I hope that will be beneficial.” Asked whether he envisaged a world that would be without fossil fuels, Pachau ri said, “We have brought out very clearly (in the report) that if we want to keep global temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius from 1880 level, then by the end of this century, fossil fuel based power generation will be phased out unless weuse carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility technology”.
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