Climate change boss jumps in car for mile journey

The chief of the climate change committee has astounded many environmental groups, as well as his own committee after he used a car and a driver to make a one-mile trip to his office. Dr Rajendra Pachauri has won a Nobel Prize for his work on the environment and has even warned that the Himalayas glaciers might melt in the next 25 years if the world does not reduce its carbon footprint.

On Friday last week Dr Pachauri wanted to travel to his office in Delhi and he could have walked the mile long journey, ridden a bicycle or even used the electric G-Wiz car to transport himself there, but he decided the better option was to use a car with a driver. Hours later he was then picked up by his chauffer in the Toyota Corolla and delivered back to his £4.5 million mansion.

The director general of The Energy and Resources Institute was then taken to an upmarket area in Delhi that is popular with tourists and the wealthy in the city, obviously ignoring his company’s literature about the use of buses and public transport to reduce CO2 emissions into the air. His chauffer apparently said that Dr Pachauri uses the electric car whenever possible, but it is not big enough for the two of them and the Toyota is often used.

His office bought four of the G-Wiz cars for the staff at the institute to use on short trips around the city to help the environment. Dr Pachauri was given one for his private use, but it seems he prefers to be driven to thinking of the environment.