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INDIA'S DR RAJENDRA PACHAURI, BORN IN NAINITAL WON NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Dosto,
A very good news of all of that DR RAJENDRA PACHAURI who born in Nainital of Uttarakhand has won the Nobel Prize for Piece.
Here is the realted news.
SEE THE LINES IN RED BELOW
M S Mehta
IPCC chief Pachauri 'stunned' on receiving Nobel
Sify Correspondent | Friday, 12 October , 2007, 20:48
New Delhi: India's Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who shares this year's Nobel Peace Prize jointly with former US Vice-President Al Gore, said that he was 'stunned' when he received a phone call informing him of the news.
"I can't believe it, overwhelmed, stunned," he told reporters in New Delhi on learning that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by him had won the Nobel Prize.
Pachauri was in New Delhi when the news of IPCC sharing the Nobel Prize for peace reached him on Friday.
He thanked his colleagues and well-wishers who assembled outside his office immediately after the news broke out.
"I was not expecting any award for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore. I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organisation which has been awarded,'' he said. "'With this award to the committee, the issue of climate change will come to the fore. It places a larger responsibility on me and I will ensure that more will be done."
Pachauri said climate change threatens to disrupt economic activity and social stability across the world.
''It's good that the global committee has highlighted the issue. By recognising the climate change, the Norwegian Committee wants to stress that something should be immediately done to mitigate the threats of global warming which are near and in real.''
The Indian scientist who was earlier awarded the Padma Bushan by the Indian Government, said: "The message should go to every developed and developing countries that climate change is a major issue. And we have to make sure that it does not afflict the inhabitants of this planet."
Born in Nainital district in Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on 20 August 1940, Pachauri served in a number of national and international organisations before he took his current post as the Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) in April 2001.
He was elected as Chairman of IPCC-- established by World Meteorological Organisation and United Nation environment Programme in 1998 – in 2002 and has been active in several international forums dealing with climate change and policy dimension.
From his office in New Delhi, Dr Pachauri has spent over two decades first working on making the links between man's activities and climate change, and then on persuading the world's population of the damage it was wreaking.
Eschewing weekends, he worked in his office from 5 am until late at night working with scientists from around the world to summarise scientific understanding of climate change.
The key report stated that it was more than 90 per cent likely that mankind's activities were the primary cause of global warming over the past 50 years.
This year his labours intensified as he oversaw the publication of a series of IPCC reports on global warming.
Pachauri is the seventh Indian to win the Nobel Prize.
Other Indians to win the coveted international recognition are: Rabindranath Tagore (1913) for literature, Sir C V Raman (1930) for Physics, Dr Hargobind Khurana (1968) for Medicine and Physiology, Dr Subramaniam Chandrasekar (1983) for Physics, Mother Teresa (1979) for Peace and Dr Amartya Sen (1998) for Economics.
The five-member Nobel Committee has received 181 nominations this year for Peace Prize.
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
For more detail read this link.
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14542573
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
This is really a good India. Of course, we Uttarakhandi also feel proud that he born in UK and has brought such prirze for nation.
Many many congratulations to Dr Rajender for this achievement. !!!!
--- Quote from: M S Mehta on October 13, 2007, 09:04:07 AM ---
Dosto,
A very good news of all of that DR RAJENDRA PACHAURI who born in Nainital of Uttarakhand has won the Nobel Prize for Piece.
Here is the realted news.
SEE THE LINES IN RED BELOW
M S Mehta
IPCC chief Pachauri 'stunned' on receiving Nobel
Sify Correspondent | Friday, 12 October , 2007, 20:48
New Delhi: India's Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who shares this year's Nobel Peace Prize jointly with former US Vice-President Al Gore, said that he was 'stunned' when he received a phone call informing him of the news.
"I can't believe it, overwhelmed, stunned," he told reporters in New Delhi on learning that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by him had won the Nobel Prize.
Pachauri was in New Delhi when the news of IPCC sharing the Nobel Prize for peace reached him on Friday.
He thanked his colleagues and well-wishers who assembled outside his office immediately after the news broke out.
"I was not expecting any award for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore. I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organisation which has been awarded,'' he said. "'With this award to the committee, the issue of climate change will come to the fore. It places a larger responsibility on me and I will ensure that more will be done."
Pachauri said climate change threatens to disrupt economic activity and social stability across the world.
''It's good that the global committee has highlighted the issue. By recognising the climate change, the Norwegian Committee wants to stress that something should be immediately done to mitigate the threats of global warming which are near and in real.''
The Indian scientist who was earlier awarded the Padma Bushan by the Indian Government, said: "The message should go to every developed and developing countries that climate change is a major issue. And we have to make sure that it does not afflict the inhabitants of this planet."
Born in Nainital district in Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on 20 August 1940, Pachauri served in a number of national and international organisations before he took his current post as the Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) in April 2001.
He was elected as Chairman of IPCC-- established by World Meteorological Organisation and United Nation environment Programme in 1998 – in 2002 and has been active in several international forums dealing with climate change and policy dimension.
From his office in New Delhi, Dr Pachauri has spent over two decades first working on making the links between man's activities and climate change, and then on persuading the world's population of the damage it was wreaking.
Eschewing weekends, he worked in his office from 5 am until late at night working with scientists from around the world to summarise scientific understanding of climate change.
The key report stated that it was more than 90 per cent likely that mankind's activities were the primary cause of global warming over the past 50 years.
This year his labours intensified as he oversaw the publication of a series of IPCC reports on global warming.
Pachauri is the seventh Indian to win the Nobel Prize.
Other Indians to win the coveted international recognition are: Rabindranath Tagore (1913) for literature, Sir C V Raman (1930) for Physics, Dr Hargobind Khurana (1968) for Medicine and Physiology, Dr Subramaniam Chandrasekar (1983) for Physics, Mother Teresa (1979) for Peace and Dr Amartya Sen (1998) for Economics.
The five-member Nobel Committee has received 181 nominations this year for Peace Prize.
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एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Dr RAJENDER PAUCHARI BORN IN NAINITAL WON THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR INDIA
Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Friday, 12 October , 2007, 14:52
Oslo: Former US vice-president Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.
Gore, who won an Academy Award this year for his film An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary on global warming, had been widely expected to win the prize.
The joint winner of this year's prize, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is headed by India's Rajendra Kumar Pachauri and was established in 2002 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the leading body for the scientific assessment of climate change.
Climate change has moved high on the international agenda this year. The UN climate panel has been releasing reports, talks are set to resume on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, and there is concern about the melting Arctic. <
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said global warming, "may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."
Jan Egeland, a Norwegian peace mediator and former UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, also called climate change more than an environmental issue.
"It is a question of war and peace," said Egeland, now director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. "We're already seeing the first climate wars, in the Sahel belt of Africa."
He said, “Nomads and herders are in conflict with farmers because the changing climate has brought drought and a shortage of fertile lands.”
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Dr RAJENDER PAUCHARI BORN IN NAINITAL WON THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR INDIA
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born August 20, 1940, Nainital, British India) was elected chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2002. Pachauri also serves as the head of the Energy and Resources Institute, formerly known as Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) of India, an institution devoted to sustainable development. Dr Pachauri has been associated with various other academic and research institutes.[1] He was on the Board of Directors of the Indian Oil Corporation (January 1999 to September 2003); Board of Directors of GAIL (India) Ltd. (April 2003 to October 2004); National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (August 2002 to August 2005); the Board of Governors, Shriram Scientific and Industrial Research Foundation (September 1987); the Executive Committee of the India International Centre, New Delhi (1985 onwards); the Governing Council of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (October 1987 onwards); and the Court of Governors, Administrative Staff College of India (1979-81). In acknowledgement of his environmental contributions, Pachauri was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 -- one of India's highest civilian awards that recognizes distinguished service to the nation.
Under Pachauri's watch, IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri[2]
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