Jack Beale Memorial Lecture

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, delivered the 2007 Jack Beale Memorial Lecture on Global Environment at UNSW’s John Niland Scientia Building.

As IPCC Chairman since April 2002, Dr Pachauri has a major leadership role in developing an international response to climate change issues. A citizen of India, Dr Pachauri is also Director General of the Tata Energy Research Institute.

Established by the World Meteorological Organisation and United Nations Environment Program, the IPCC was created to understand the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change.

Dr Pachauri told the audience of 800 that Australia had to "seize this opportunity for reassessing its position and chart out a new path of sustainable development." Explaining that nations like Australia needed to "act resolutely on the basis of the scientific evidence" revealing that global warming of the climate system was due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.

The lecture series is named after Mr Jack Beale AO, a distinguished environmental leader and UNSW alumnus, who passed away in 2006. He was the first NSW environment minister and maintained a close association with the University throughout his working life.

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