Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, talks with Climate-Change.tv about his open address at the Poznan talks. He also summarises the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, which explores the impacts of climate change going forward and how to achieve progress in a weak economic environment and why awareness of the problem of climate change is on the rise. Also see Rajendra Kumar Pachauri speaking in July from the IPCC Conference in Venice. And Antigua and Barbuda’s John Ashe, chair of the AWG on the Kyoto Protocol, speaking from Copenhagen.