Climate meet: Pachauri positive at the progress - World News - IBNLive

Cancun (Mexico): As the slow-moving talks on combating climate change enter their final stretch here, top UN scientist R K Pachauri has warned governments against delaying mitigation action, though he remained optimistic about "significant progress" at the ongoing meet.

"The outlook (of this climate meet) looks positive and I have reason to believe we will make significant progress at the end of this particular session," said Pachauri, head of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN scientific body.

He underlined that negotiators had to keep science at the forefront and warned that delaying climate action would keep ratcheting up the costs.
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On whether the overall declining interest in the climate change problem was an issue of concern, Pachauri said: "In all these areas there are ups and downs and it's just a matter of time before the public realises what we're in for and I hope that leads to a resolve across the world to take the right kind of action."

2007: Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC, Science and Politics Archives

The IPCC is riding high these days, but as Burt Metz says, they need to be very careful. Saying that your organization is "policy neutral" while behaving quite differently does not seem to be a sustainable practice. Policy makers will need science advice on climate change for a long time. The IPCC politicizes its efforts with some risk.