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Oslo: Head of UN’s top climate panel R K Pachauri warned the international community that continued negligence in protecting the world’s heritage and natural resources could prove extremely harmful for the human race and lead to some irreversible impacts on biodiversity.
“Neglect in protecting our heritage of natural resources could prove extremely harmful for the human race and for all species that share common space on planet earth,” the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in his speech after receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace prize, along with former US vice president Al Gore from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf.
There are many lessons in human history which provide adequate warning about the chaos and destruction that could take place if we remain guilty of myopic indifference to the progressive erosion and decline of nature’s resources, Pachauri said.
In general, the impacts of climate change on some of the poorest and the most vulnerable communities in the world could prove extremely unsettling, he said.
Climate change is expected to exacerbate current stresses on water resources. On a regional scale, mountain snowpack, glaciers, and small ice caps play a crucial role in fresh water availability, he said.
— Agencies
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