Climate study "by Pachauri"

The Energy and Resources Institute will soon conduct a detailed climate study in West Bengal, R.K. Pachauri, the institute’s director-general and the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change that won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, announced on Monday.

“We have been carrying out studies in the Sunderbans. Now we will undertake a study covering the entire state,” said Pachauri, who was in the city to speak at a programme on corporate social and environment responsibility organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in India along with The Telegraph.

The state government will partially fund the project. The institute, said Pachauri, will bear the rest.

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But co-director of the climate change research centre at the University of NSW, Andy Pittman, has criticised the cut.

"The science is uncertain, but it's uncertain in the 25 to 50 per cent, not five per cent or ten per cent or 15 per cent," Professor Pittman, also an IPCC lead author, told ABC radio.

"It needs to be much deeper than that if we want to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change."