Policy-neutral IPCC chief Pachauri at the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy launch: “The good news really is the fact that a lot of actions required to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases are really very attractive"

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October 9, 2012 – The University of Southern California launched the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy with its inaugural symposium on September 24.
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The inaugural symposium included a luncheon discussion with Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster and Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. NBC “News Conference” host Conan Nolan moderated the forum, which addressed how local solutions can influence global responses to climate change and environmental stewardship.

“The good news really is the fact that a lot of actions required to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases are really very attractive,” Pachauri said.
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But unless the world begins to earnestly acknowledge the negative impacts of climate change, things will only get worse, Pachauri said.

“I think, to be quite honest, there’s a lot of disinformation,” he added. But Pachauri thinks that skepticism is bottoming out.
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“It’s entirely true that the impacts of climate change are going to become progressively worse,” he said, predicting that heat waves will increase in both frequency and intensity and that large-scale precipitation events will also rise. “I hope the bad news doesn’t create inertia in our actions and actually compels us to take the right kind of action.”
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“We’re all on this planet together,” Pachauri said, “and I think we’ve reached a stage where anything that happens in one part of the world has major implications for other parts of the world.”