As a United Nations Environment Programme ‘Champion of the Earth’, Massoumeh Ebtekar 
is in the distinguished company of Mikhail Gorbachev, Thabo Mbeki and Al Gore. The former Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of its Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 spoke to ASIAN Geographic’s Ian Seldrup about the environmental challenges facing the Middle East and Asia as a whole.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). 
In 2007, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, along with former 
US Vice-President Al Gore. In an exclusive interview, he talks to ASIAN Geographic’s 
Ferina Natasya Abdul Aziz on the IPCC’s progress and global climate change.