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