Pachauri warns Maharashtra over climate change | Top News

The Chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), Nobel laureate R K Pachauri, warned that climate change would have adverse impact on life in the next couple of years.

Addressing a two-day international conference on Reverence for Mother Earth, through video-conferencing, Mr. Pachauri said: "Climate change is only symptomatic of a larger problem of unsustainable development. Unfortunately, India is shedding its traditional culture of co-existing with nature. It is critical that we change our lifestyles."

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He said that there were three elements to the strategy - renewables such as wind power, nuclear power and clean fossil fuel energy through carbon capture and storage.

'It does mean big changes in people's lives,' he said.

'That does mean some costs for transition. My job is to counter those effects as much as I possibly can, helping people with energy efficiency and having tough regulation.'

At the same time, he said that transport would also be affected with a shift towards electric cars and higher charges for flying.