[Mitworld] New: Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference: Pachauri on Climate Change

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[HOW WOULD CLIMATE CHANGE INFLUENCE SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY?]

MIT hosted the Alliance for Global Sustainabiliy Conference, which
included this keynote from Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the orgainization
that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al
Gore.

SPEAKER:
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner (IPCC with Al Gore)


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/550/>

[QUOTE]
"We can't adapt our way out of climate change. The severity of impacts
will reach a level we have to prevent, and we can only prevent through
the stabilization of greenhouse gases, and therefore a stabilization of
temperature increase."
-- Rajendra K. Pachauri


EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative <http://web.mit.edu/mitei/>

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[HOW WOULD CLIMATE CHANGE INFLUENCE SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
 (PANEL)]

MODERATOR:
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner (IPCC with Al Gore)

PANELISTS:
John Reilly
Associate Director for Research, Joint Program on the Science and Policy
of Global Change
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan

Adil Najam
Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Policy and Director, Pardee Center
for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University

Howard Herzog
Principal Research Engineer, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the
Environment
Program Manager, Carbon Sequestration Initiative

Michael W. Golay
Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

William Moomaw
Professor of International Environmental Policy
Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource
Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Andreas Fischlin
Head, Terrestrial Systems Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETHZ
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/551/>

[QUOTE]
"One thing implicit in responding to climate change is we're looking at
a much more constrained and expensive world than we've been used to
living in. We understand at some level, but it hasn't bitten us yet."
-- Michael Golay


EVENT HOST: The MIT Energy Initiative <http://web.mit.edu/mitei/>

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