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Nature 416, 774 (25 April 2002) | doi:10.1038/416774a
Climate panel unsettled by public battle for top job
Jim Giles
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elected a new chair last week — but the nature of the vote has raised questions over the panel's independence.Rajendra Pachauri, director of the Tata Energy Research Institute in New Delhi and vice-chair of the IPCC, beat current chair Robert Watson by 76 votes to 49 in the election held in Geneva on 19 April.
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