Focus on Green Economic Development in Developing Countries, Not Just Emission Reductions: Chair of IPCC

photo: Lizette Kabré/Copenhagen Climate Congress Dr Rajendra Pachauri (chairman of the IPCC, director-general of the The Energy and Resources Institute, and now head of the newly formed Yale Climate and Energy Institute) was one of the speakers who kicked off the Copenhagen Climate Congress's opening session. One of the most interesting things to come out of his presentation was the notion that rich nations' efforts to push rapidly growing nations to cut their carbon emissions would be...