former UN climate chief's promotion has set off renewed fury over sexual harassment allegations

PRI ^ | February 16, 2016 | Rhitu Chatterjee

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Pachauri, who has headed TERI since 2001, is renowned internationally for his work on climate change, for which he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. He is facing charges of sexual harassment and stalking made last February by a 29-year-old female employee at TERI, who has since resigned from her position.

Pachauri denied the allegations, but stepped down from his position at the IPCC. Last May, an internal committee at TERI found him guilty of sexually harassing the woman.

But still, last week, TERI announced that he was promoted to the position of executive vice chairman, an announcement that prompted fresh allegations of sexual harassment by another former TERI employee.
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"Our instant reaction was of outrage at the injustice of the situation," says Brototi Roy, one of the students in the group. "If you're accused of something like that, there should be some kind of accountability."

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Rajendra Pachauri



Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as "the world's top climate scientist"), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.

What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations.

These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in 'carbon trading' and 'sustainable technologies', which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year. [LINK]

Two climate change "Scientists":

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Dr. Reachinda Ur Pocketearly.

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Dr. Pachauri: I know its hot, you know its hot, how about you take off your clothes?

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Businees interests that benefit from climate ghange decisions, problems with women......Gore and Pachauri are like two peas in a pod.