IPCC Head’s Conflicts of Interest

It appears that the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has significant conflicts of interests with ventures and connections associated with climate change. Dr. Rajendra Pachauri is accused of making a fortune through links with carbon trading companies.

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Telegraph.co.uk, 20 December 2009

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.

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.

read more at Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri

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