Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said today that he “wouldn’t say the US was an obstacle but would say it is a laggard” on global climate change policy.
“Hopefully the US will get its act together,” he told journalists at a press briefing after his speech at the International Energy Association’s ministerial meeting in Paris on October 15. “If that’s the case I don’t see why we won’t get an agreement in Copenhagen.”...