Enterprises should adapt to climate change: R.K. Pachauri

Newstrack India via IANS: Stressing on the need to "mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases as part of the overall solution", renowned environmental scientist Rajendra K. Pachauri Saturday said management of enterprises across the globe will have to adapt to impact of climate change.

"The management of every enterprise across the globe will have to adapt to these impacts of climate change, because with inertia in the system, climate change and its impacts will continue for several years even if we were to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases on a stringent basis," said Pachauri at the 48th annual convocation of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta.

Pachauri also chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that researches climate change and its potential consequences, which was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 during his tenure.

"But limits to adaptation and resilience will be faced when thresholds or tipping points associated with social and/or natural systems are exceeded. Hence the world would need to mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases as part of the overall solution," said Pachauri, the director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)...