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Rajendra Pachauri speaks out over sexual harassment claims
2016-03-26 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was the crowning glory of a distinguished career when, in December 2007, the head of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the charismatic Rajendra Pachauri, collected the Nobel peace prize in Oslo. Elected by governments five years before to chair the small independent organisation charged with informing them on the state of global climate science, Pachauri had seen off the Bush administration, which loathed the IPCC for not taking its line on climate change. He had weathered...
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Who will succeed Rajendra Pachauri as the next head of the IPCC?
2015-03-12 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
India: RK Pachauri quits PM panel, complainant to appeal his anticipatory bail
2015-02-28 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted Rajendra K Pachauri's resignation from the PM's Council on Climate Change even as the complainant in the sexual harassment case against him decided to challenge the anticipatory bail granted to him early this week. Govt sources told ET that Pachauri had submitted his resignation from the PM Panel on Friday evening, and a PIB release on Saturday afternoon confirmed Prime Minister Narendra Modi had accepted his resignation. ET had reported on February...
India: RK Pachauri gets protection from arrest till March 27
2015-02-26 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: A Delhi court has granted former United Nations climate panel chief RK Pachauri, protection from arrest till March 27 in a case of alleged sexual harassment and stalking. The court also restrained Pachauri from entering the premises of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - a think-tank of which he was the Director General till a few days ago - till March 27. Pachauri (74) who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 on behalf of the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change, has also been...
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UN refuses to conduct probe against Pachauri in sexual harassment case
2015-02-24 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
India Tv: The United Nations on Wednesday made it clear that it will not conduct any inquiry into accusations of sexual harassment against RK Pachauri, who resigned as the chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as the case is being probed by national authorities. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the UN chief received a letter from Pachauri informing him of his decision to step down as the chairman of the panel with immediate...
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