2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner IPCC Chairman to speak at AIT via international video conference

You are all cordially invited to join a special lecture this week from Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, IPCC Chairman entitled "The IPCC Fourth Assessment and  Beyond", on Friday, 2 November at 11:00 a.m. in the Milton Bender Auditorium, Asian Institute of Technology.

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded on October 12th to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the former US vice-president Al Gore for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. In response to this award, Dr. Pachauri stated: “This is an honour that goes to all the scientists and authors who have contributed to the work of the IPCC, which alone has resulted in enormous prestige for this organization and the remarkable effectiveness of the message that it contains.”

The title of Dr. Pachauri’s presentation is “The IPCC Fourth Assessment and Beyond”. The synthesis report for this assessment will be launched on 17 November 2007.

Dr. Pachauri will give his lecture live via video conference from the Energy Research Institute in New Delhi to conference rooms at the United Nations University (UNU), Keio University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of the Ryukyus, the National University of Samoa, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the University of Hawaii. Participants at all sites will have an opportunity to interact with Dr. Pachauri during a commentary and questions and answers session following his lecture, which is delivered  as part of the Asia Pacific Initiative Advanced Seminar on International Environmental Studies.