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09-23-2009, 05:10 PM
Climate change expert Rajendra Pachauri from India has accepted an invitation by President Leonel Fernandez to visit and work together with the Ministry of Environment. Pachauri chairs the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose report has served as a guidepost for UN climate change talks. He is recognized as a leading global thinker and leader of research on climate change. He shared the podium with Al Gore to receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC.
He met in New York with President Fernandez, Presidency Minister Cesar Pina Toribio, Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez, Omar Ramirez, director of the Presidential Climate Change Office, and Dominican ambassador to the United Nations Federico Cuello at the United Nations.
President Leonel Fernandez attended the UN inaugural session where Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for support for the landmark conference in Denmark in December to tackle the threat of catastrophic climate change.
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He met in New York with President Fernandez, Presidency Minister Cesar Pina Toribio, Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez, Omar Ramirez, director of the Presidential Climate Change Office, and Dominican ambassador to the United Nations Federico Cuello at the United Nations.
President Leonel Fernandez attended the UN inaugural session where Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for support for the landmark conference in Denmark in December to tackle the threat of catastrophic climate change.
www.rkpachauri.org/bio.php (http://www.rkpachauri.org/bio.php)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)