Rajendra Pachauri, Head of UN’s Climate Change Panel Clears Money Taint
- Rajendra Pachauri, Head of UN’s Climate Change Panel Clears Money Taint
Rajendra Pachauri, the plagued head of the UN’s climate change panel who was under inspection for receiving alleged payments from private companies, has been cleared of the allegations by an independently conducted review, a media report has said.
KPMG, the professional services company, examined the personal finances of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after media suggested late last year that he received money for advising several private sector companies, including Toyota and Credit Suisse.
The review found these were all paid to Mr Pachauri’s non-profit organization TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), which commissioned KPMG.
Also the “respected German Leibniz research community” (they’re biologists and biochemists) want IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri to resign because of the same debunked accusations.
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, apologized for the way his organization handled complaints about mistakes in its report, and for criticizing an opposing piece of research as “voodoo science”.
“I will try to clarify that I’m not prescribing anything as a solution,” he said.
“Maybe I should be more careful (in media interviews) in laying down certain riders. One learns from that and I’m learning.”
“There might be a few minor glitches in the use of language, a few statements that are not appropriately worded, but this is a human undertaking with 600 to 700 authors,” Pachauri was quoted as saying.
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