December 02, 2008

Committee to study climatic change impacts formed

Mr Namo Narayana Meena union minister of state in the ministry of environment & forests recently announced that “Central government has set up the expert committee on impacts of climate change on May 7th 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr R Chidambaram principal scientific advisor to the government of India to study the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on India and to identify the measures that we may have to take in the future in relation to addressing vulnerability to anthropogenic climate change impacts.”

Dr RK Pachauri director general of the energy resources institute is also the chairman of the inter governmental panel on climate change, which has submitted its 3 working group reports recently.

These reports provides a global assessment of observed climate change, climate processes and estimates of projected or future climate change, impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems and their vulnerability etc. and provides findings at the continental level. No country specific findings for any country including India have been provided in these reports.