New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) Noted environmentalist R K Pachauri today said the Himalayan glaciers are melting at a "very rapid speed", but did not refer to his earlier assertion that the glaciers could disappear by 2035, for which he had come under sharp attack from the government and others.
"Glaciers are melting at a very rapid speed," Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said when asked if he still maintains that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.
Despite the fact that the issue is "serious", he said "little concern has been shown by the government so far to address the issue of melting of Himalayan glaciers."
"Though the issue is part of one of the eight mission of National Action plan for climate change announced in 2008, nothing concrete has been done so far to address the problem," Pachauri told PTI.