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Rajendra Pachauri, Indian climate change authority who led UN panel, dies at 79

- (Washington Post)

Rajendra Pachauri, an Indian engineer and economist who led the UN Intergover­nmental Panel on Climate Change for more than a decade, championin­g climate science and leading the panel when it received a share of the Nobel Peace Prize, only for his career to unravel in recent years amid allegation­s of sexual harassment, has died at 79.

His death was announced by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a New Delhi research organizati­on he had led for more than 30 years. Pachauri had a heart ailment and had been hospitalis­ed in New Delhi.

His death came after years of court proceeding­s in India, where he was accused in 2015 of sexually harassing a female employee at TERI. Pachauri denied the harassment charges.

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