UN climate panel re-elects Rajendra Pachauri as chairman

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GENEVA (AFP) — The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said Tuesday it has re-elected chairman Rajendra Pachauri for a second term.

Pachauri has been head of the organisation since 2002 and oversaw its seminal assessment report in 2007 which gave graphic forecasts of the risks posed by global warming.

The IPCC warned then that without action the planet's rising temperatures could unleash potentially catastrophic change to earth's climate system, leading to hunger, drought, storms and massive species loss.

The organisation also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US Vice President Al Gore.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the panel on Sunday at a ceremony to mark its twentieth anniversary....