A two-day workshop on climate change for schoolchildren concluded in the Capital on 12 May 2008. Highlighting the reasons for worry about climate change, Nobel laureate and Chairman of the Inter-governmental panel on Climate Change, Dr R K Pachauri said, “There is enough physical and documentary evidence that climate change is happening. There is a 90 per cent probability that in the last five years, whatever climate change has occurred has been due to human activity.

While the Earth may have 10 more years before the effects of global warming begin to take place according to a recent report and climate change is being interlinked with the global food security crisis, the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) headed by Dr Vijay Kelkar is looking at various measures for managing the ecology and climate change in consistence with sustainable development. In an innovative departure from the previous finance commissions, this time the terms of reference of the TFC also give it the mandate to study ways to manage the ecology, environment and climate change consistent with sustainable development. The Commission has also roped in TERI and the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal to study the possible ways of sustainable development with environmental responsibility

Former US President Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit has spurred nearly 1000 commitments in the past three years from business, non-profit and government leaders that aim to improve the lives of 200 million of the world's poor. Under Clinton Global Initiative commitment by IPCC chairman, Dr R K Pachauri, "Lighting a Million Lives in India." TERI has brought 30,000 solar-powered lanterns to 300 Indian villages. The lanterns allow children to study and adults to work past sunset in rural India, where some 78 million homes lack electricity, while eliminating unhealthy kerosene lantern fumes as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

The uptake of green building design has been praised but developers and the government were warned of the importance of developing local sustainable design by the Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental scientist Dr R K Pachauri. Dr Pachauri, chairman of Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has supported the launch of ETA Star Properties’ green building. The VERDE residences and offices at Dubai Maritime City near Port Rashid are designed to achieve gold rating on the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) programme and due to be completed in 2011.

Environment scientist and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr R K Pachauri said that reclaimed lands possibly face the danger of subsidence. Unveiling the Green towers in Dubai, Dr Pachauri attributed the possibility of subsidence to the climatic change which would also bring a lot of rainfall.

NDTV today launched a nationwide environment campaign to confront dangers of climate change and global warming with support from Nobel laureate and India's leading environmental scientist Dr R K Pachauri. 'Open up Tomorrow, Today' is a three-year long initiative that will put the spotlight on environmental concerns that threaten the future of the earth.

R K Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Friday took on the government, saying that climate change is affecting Indian agriculture unlike what 'some leaders' had claimed. His warning came while addressing MPs in a lecture organised by the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training.

India’s first centre dedicated to monitoring climate change and finding country-specific solutions was opened at Anna University by R.K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Friday. “Tamil Nadu has always been a few steps a head of the nation when it comes to innovation. The centre here in Chennai will serve the interests of the State as a whole and its people. I hope this will be one of many,” Dr. Pachauri said.