Pachauri: ‘Viable, Low-Cost’ Climate Options Available

Developed country parties must take the leads in combating climate change and the address of stare off, said Kumar Pachauri, the chairman of the UN committee on climate change at the opening this morning of the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen. Mitigation of emissions is essential because, the IPCC has assessed its cost to be modest, he said. To limit average temperature increase at 2 degrees to 2.1 degrees Celsius, the cost of mitigation by 2020 would not exceed 3 percent of the global GDP.