Legal mechanism needed to counter global warming: TERI Director

Bangalore, Aug 19 (UNI) Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) Director General R K Pachauri today called upon the law-makers to create a legal mechanism to fight challenges of climate change and global warming.

Delivering the convocation address at the 15th Annual Convocation of the National Law School of India here, he stressed the need to address the problem of climate change on an equitable and ethically fair basis.

''Though the people and the political class are clamouring for a solution to the menace of global warming and impending climate change, there is no legal mechanism by which a global agreement, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) can be given adequate teeth for compliance or a system to penalise those flouting such agreements,'' Dr Pachauri noted.

He said it was time for the legal profession to turns its attention to protect the lives of those affected by the impact of climate change.

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