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February 24, 2015

U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sexual Harassment Case 
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Top climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri has stepped down as head of the
United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change amid an investigation in India over sexual harassment. A female
researcher at Pachauri's group, The Energy and Resources Institute,
accused him of sending her harassing email and text messages. Pachauri's
attorneys say his accounts and phone were hacked.

 

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