Describing the financial impropriety allegations levelled against him by Britain’s Sunday Telegraph as "a pack of lies", Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief RK Pachauri today sought an apology from the London-based newspaper.
The Sunday Telegraph had alleged that he was "with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations".
"IPCC makes no policy recommendations, and all its reports are in the public domain, widely distributed and disseminated across the world. There is nothing in this report that could have any proprietary benefit," the rejoinder from the Nobel laureate says.
The article had alleged The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), which Pachauri is heading since the 1980s, maintains close links with the Tata group and assists it in developing its carbon trading business worldwide.
To this, Pachauri said, "Teri's ties ended when Darbari Seth, who was on our board, died in 1999. We haven’t received a single penny from Tatas for years and have no ties with them. Teri submits its yearly accounts to the government under Section 12 of the Income Tax Act."
The chief of Nobel-award winning IPCC said, "The allegation is baseless and it came from people with vested interests."
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