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UN climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri accused of sexual harassment
2015-02-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has been accused of sexually harassing a woman colleague at a New Delhi-based research institute headed by him. The 29-year-old researcher accused 74-year-old Pachauri of making physical advances and sending lewd text messages and e-mails since she joined The Energy and Research Institute in September 2013, according to a copy of the complaint and her lawyer. The preliminary complaint has been registered...
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U.N. climate panel chief Pachauri accused of sexual harassment
2015-02-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Police are investigating claims that the one of world's top climate change officials, Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sexually harassed a 29-year-old woman, police and lawyers said on Friday. The woman, who is a researcher at Pachauri's Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), claims the 74-year-old Indian scientist began harassing her soon after she joined the non-profit think-tank in September 2013. Pachauri has denied...
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UN climate chief tempers expectations on Paris deal
2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tempering expectations on a global climate deal in Paris this year, the U.N.'s top climate diplomat on Thursday warned against assuming the pact will suffice to prevent dangerous levels of warming. As negotiators prepare for a new round of talks in Geneva next week, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said the role of the deal is not to fix the problem, but to chart the course for countermeasures that can be scaled up over time. "It is a fundamental misinterpretation or misunderstanding...
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EPA chief: Weather, climate scientists work is essential
2015-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the sun slowly crept above the desert horizon Wednesday morning, the unmistakable Boston accent of EPA administrator Gina McCarthy jolted to life a room of scientists gathered here for the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. "Are you awake?' she asked, prompting a round a laughter that set the tone for her spirited talk and answers to AMS president William Gail's questions about the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, including the Environmental Protection Agency's...
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UN climate chief hails China-U.S. announcement on climate change
2014-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday hailed a joint announcement by China and the United States on climate change as providing momentum towards a new climate agreement in Paris in 2015. Fiegueres, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which organizes UN climate talks, said in a statement that the joint announcement by China and the United States in Beijing to strengthen joint efforts to tackle climate change signals "determination...
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