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Rajendra Pachauri

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Rajendra Pachauri is Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific intergovernmental body that provides decision-makers and the public with an objective source of information about climate change. He is also Director General of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), a major independent research organization providing knowledge on energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources. Pachauri is recognized internationally for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundation for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. Since July 2009, he has served as the director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute and has been active in several international forums pertaining to climate change and its policy. He was awarded the second-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Vibhushan, in January 2008 by the President of India and became an Officer of the French Legion of Honors in 2006, in addition to numerous other international honors.