Dr. Pachauri, the latest Nobel prize winner, the Swiss president driving in the solartaxi – all in India and all in just one week! Sounds impossible - but it isn’t if you are on tour with Louis Palmer, the Swiss adventurer and driver of the solartaxi.
Palmer is on his way to making his dream come true: to be the first to travel around the world using only solar power as his fuel. With his solartaxi, he has already journeyed from Lucerne through Germany, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Dubai and onto India – where I met him and joined him on his trip to document his adventures for Club of Pioneers.Over the next few weeks I will send back videos documenting our travels, giving you a taste of what it feels like to be on a pioneering, 100 percent sustainable mission, meeting different cultures and fascinating people every day. Here is my first episode featuring none other than Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Nobel prize winner and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change!!!
If you want to know more about the solartaxi and our travels, stay tuned. The next video will be up shortly!!!Also, if you have any questions you want to ask - just do it at redaktion@clubofpioneers.comI will post the answers on my blog as soon as I can.

Once again Rajendra Pachauri will be in the focus of world public. The scientist from India who is the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will present on May 4th the third and last part of the groups report on climate change.It is hardly known that a group of scientists - 450 to be precisely- has attracted so much attention from politicians and journalists around the globe.
Pachauri during a panel sessionBangkok will see another run on the scientists. The third part of the report the group is presenting will face solutions for climate change whose reasons and impacts have been the content of the first two parts of the panel's research. It is entitled "Mitigation of Climate Change".The "impact-part", better the 23 pages long summary out of 1000, which is a wrap up for politicians has caused a lot of troubles and formed strange allies such as the US together with China and Saudi-Arabia. Those nations negotiated until dawn to diminuish the sound of the scientist's warnings; many times a "probably" was demanded. USA and China fear losses for their economies. The second part has been disclosed on Friday April 6th which was Good Friday this year in the Christian Calendar. A good feeling however neither the report nor the behaviour of certain delegations could create.Pachauri knows the trouble the report of the IPCC creates and he wants it this way. Otherwise it might not show any impact as reports of scientists usually do. Pachauri is the Director General of Tata Energy Research Institute). This institute originally works and provides professional support in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions, and corporate organizations. Pachauri has taken charge as Chairman of IPCC from April 2002 onwards.

Mitigation is in our hands
Mitigation now must not be done half-hearted Pachauri emphazises wherever he goes at the moment. Things that have to be done - the report will name a lot of them - might cost something in the beginning. However and this is what we know since the Stern-Report on the Economic costs of climate change it will be a minimum price compared what we have to pay if there will be no mitigation at all today.