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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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UN climate chief to miss key meeting after sex harassment claim
2015-02-22 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: A top United Nations climate change official has pulled out of a key meeting in Kenya next week as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him, officials have said. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), withdrew due to "issues demanding his attention," the U.N. body said in a statement late Saturday. The allegations come at a crucial time as Pachauri tries to set the table for a key climate change summit...
Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
RK Pachauri to skip Nairobi climate meet after woman complains of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deccan Chronicle: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC has said its chairman RK Pachauri has expressed his inability to go to Nairobi next week for chairing its plenary session in the wake of a complaint of sexual harassment against him. "The Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra K Pachauri, has informed the IPCC that he will be unable to chair the plenary session of the IPCC in Nairobi next week because of issues demanding his attention in India," IPCC said in a statement in Delhi. This comes after...
UN climate panel head to miss key meeting due sex harassment complaint
2015-02-21 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A top United Nations climate official, Rajendra Pachauri, has pulled out of a high-level meeting in Kenya next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him. Delhi police said Pachauri, 74, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is accused of sexually harassing a 29-year-old female researcher from his Delhi-based thinktank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The woman claims the Indian scientist...
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