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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature 455, 144 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455144a
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Change at the top for climate panel
Rajendra Pachauri keeps post, but working groups gain fresh leadership.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) elected new leadership last week in Geneva, Switzerland, unanimously re-electing the Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri as chairman but choosing new heads of the three working groups that coordinate the writing of its massive reports.
The most significant race was for the leadership of Working Group I, which evaluates the basic science of climate change.
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