Guardian: It is 13 years since the top job in the worlds leading authority on climate change was contested.
Rajendra Pachauri, outgoing chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was elected unchallenged for a second term in 2008.
The Indian scientist rode a wave of approval after the organisation scooped a Nobel peace prize. He was always due to step down this year, his departure hastened by the allegations of sexual harassment of a staffer that emerged last month. Pachauri denies...