The head of the UN's climate science panel, Rajendra Pachauri, has stepped down, the organisation announced Tuesday, amid claims that he sexually harassed a subordinate.
"The bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed on Tuesday... to designate vice-chair Ismail El Gizouli as acting IPCC chair," it said. "The designation of Gizouli follows the decision by Rajendra K Pachauri, PhD, to step down as chairman of the IPCC effective today."