Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will lead the Yale Climate and Energy Insitute, a new interdisciplinary research and policy initiative based at Yale University. Long in the forefront of the climate change debate, Pachauri helped lay the groundwork for the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. He has been chairman of the IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, since 2002, and director general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi since 2001. Pachauri will continue to serve in both positions. “No one has a more comprehensive grasp of the science and policy of climate change or has done more to bring attention to this urgent issue,” Yale President Richard C. Levin said in announcing the appointment.
IPCC Chairman Pachauri To Lead New Climate and Energy Institute at Yale
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