UN climate chief ties to oil and banking special interests-Business Week

• UN Climate chief Pachauri was hand picked by Saudis and fossil fuel interests for his post, ClimateGate emails, 4/19/2002: "intense behind-the- scenes lobbying by Saudi Arabia," for Pachauri to be named UN Climate Chief. Oil guys allow themselves to be portrayed as bad guy vs climate, but they are laughing all the way to US cap and trade.
  

7/20/10, Per Business Week, following are some of those who have made or hope to make big money from being next to the UN Climate chief: "Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is a Director-General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) since April 2001. He has been Head of Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi since April 2001. Dr. Pachauri was a

• Strategic Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P.

He has been the President of the Asian Energy Institute since 1992. Dr. Pachauri has been the President of the International Association for Energy Economics since 1988. He has been

• Chairman and Member of the Advisory Group at Asian Development Bank*** since May 2009.

...Dr. Pachauri has been an

• Independent Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd., since June 26, 2006.

He serves as Vice-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Pachauri serves as

• Director of GloriOil Limited.

He serves as Director of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of External Advisory

• Board of Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc.

He serves as Member of the Advisory Board on Energy. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of the International

• Advisory Board of Toyota Motors.

He serves as a Member of Climate Change

• Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG.

Dr. Pachauri served as Chairman of the International Association for Energy Economics from 1989 to 1990. He served as an Independent Director of NTPC Ltd. (National Thermal Power Corp.), from January 30, 2006 to January 2009. Dr. Pachauri served as a

• Director of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited until August 28, 2003.

He served as non-official Part-time Director of NTPC Ltd., from August 2002 to August 2005. Dr. Pachauri served as a Director of Gail India Ltd. from August 18, 2003 to October 26, 2004. He served as Director of Tata Energy Research Institute., since 1981. Dr. Pachauri serves as Member of

• National Environmental Council, Government of India

under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India. He serves as a Member of the International Solar Energy Society,

• World Resources Institute, World Energy Council.

Dr. Pachauri has been Member of the Economic Advisory

• Council to the Prime Minister of India since July 2001.

He serves as Member of the Oil Industry Restructuring Group, for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He served as an Advisor to the Government of India. Dr. Pachauri also served as Director of Consulting and Applied Research Division at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. ...Dr. Pachauri was a Senior Visiting Fellow of Resource Systems Institute, East -- West Center, USA. He was a Visiting Research

• Fellow at The World Bank, Washington, DC and

• McCluskey Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.

Dr. Pachauri received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Economics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1972."

• ***"Pressure," Reuters, 12/09, "The head of the Asian Development Bank, Haruhiko Kuroda, warned governments that
  
• failure to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen could lead to a
  
• collapse of the carbon market"...