IPCC Re-Elects Dr. R.K. Pachauri as its Chairman, Celebrates 20 Years of Its Existence
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - a scientific body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UNEP celebrated twenty years of its existence on the 31st of last month. At its 29th session, the IPCC re-elected by acclamation, its Chairman Dr. R.K. Pachauri to a second term. A new IPCC Bureau and Task Force Bureau were also selected in the process.
Last year had been glorious for the IPCC and for climate change research and action. Especially historical was the 10th of December, 2007 when the IPCC (and Albert Arnold Gore Jr.) were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
It is thus not too surprising, that the then Chairman has been re-elected, unopposed, for a second term by the IPCC.
