Climate Pointman To Quit

The head of the UN's climate convention said Thursday that he was to resign in a surprise announcement barely two months after the fiercely-contested Copenhagen summit on tackling global warming...

Climate Chief Was Told of False Glacier Claims Before Copenhagen

The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists...