After speaking at the 2009 EDD opening ceremony, Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri went over to the stand of the Ideas for Development blog for a discussion specially aimed at ID4D readers and contributors, i.e. you.

During this discussion, he gave us his impressions of the 2009 EDD, an occasion, which, in his opinion, is a forward step toward Copenhagen.

Then he explained why it is necessary to review the tools for measuring growth so as to assess a country’s real state of development, using as an example the Stiglitz report commissioned by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. Indeed, the latter had asked the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, the American Joseph Stiglitz, to make a report on the relevance of the tools for measuring French growth.

Following this, Dr Pachauri spoke about a recent current event: the statement made by Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that there will not be a new international treaty on climate change in Copenhagen, published in an interview in the Financial Times of 20 October.

Finally, he told us which of the six IPCC scenarios on the future of the planet we are pursuing. An inconvenient truth?

You can see this interview in the video below:

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