Tous les chemins mènent à Pachauri :

[Jacques]

Tous les chemins mènent à Pachauri :
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Tel que rapporté par Reuters - avec une légère correction : le patron de la Banque asiatique de développement (ADB), Haruhiko Kuroda, a averti les gouvernements que l'échec d'un accord sur le climat à Copenhague pourrait conduire à un effondrement du marché du carbone, ce qui dévasterait les efforts pour faire face au changement climatique  rendre très riches les commerçants de carbone.

Ca aide bien sûr de savoir que M. Kuroda est mieux connu dans les milieux écolos pour avoir créé le Groupe consultatif de l'ADB sur les changements climatiques - présidé par le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri, président à temps partiel du GIEC.

Un membre intéressant de ce groupe est le Dr Klaus Toepfer, Directeur fondateur de l'Institut des hautes études du climat, du système terrestre et des sciences du développement durable et ancien directeur exécutif du Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement (PNUE). Et ce fut le PNUE, bien sûr, qui a créé le GIEC - qui a maintenant comme président à temps partiel le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Un autre membre est professeur Hironori Hamanaka, président du conseil d'administration de l'Institut des stratégies environnementales mondiales (IGES). L'IGES prétend être "un institut de recherche qui mène des recherches pragmatiques et innovantes de politiques stratégiques pour soutenir le développement durable dans la région Asie-Pacifique." On ne sera donc pas surpris d'apprendre que l'organisation travaille en étroite collaboration avec TERI, dont le Directeur général est le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Encore une autre est Mme Huguette Labelle, également membre du conseil de l'organisation  Global Compact de l'ONU, la même ONU dont le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri fait partie. L'hilarant est que Mme Labelle est présidente de Transparency International, l'organisation mondiale de la société civile " menant la lutte contre la corruption". La mission de TI "est de créer un changement vers un monde exempt de corruption."

Le Conseil comprend également le professeur Jeffrey D. Sachs, Directeur du Earth Institute à l'Université de Columbia. C'est le même Earth Institute qui a créé le Centre des risques climatiques, en invitant le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri à devenir son premier Président du conseil d'administration.

Un personnage intéressant est le Dr Emil Salim, un conseiller du Président indonésien sur l'environnement et les questions de développement durable. Mais il est également membre l'APFED - le Forum Asie-Pacifique pour l'environnement et le développement. Une de ses principales activités est le parrainage des "Initiatives de partenariats pour les réseaux du savoir et le renforcement des capacités" - en collaboration avec TERI en tant que partenaire majeur. Mais ça ne s'arrête pas là. Dr Salim est également président de l'Institut asiatique de l'énergie, créé en 1989 par TERI et soutenue par lui depuis. Et le Directeur général de TERI est le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Le dernier mais non des moindres, est le professeur Zhou Dadi, directeur général (émérite) de l'Institut de recherches énergétiques, qui est évidemment connu sous le nom de TERI, dont le directeur général est le businessman millionnaire Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Rome paraît-il n'est plus le centre du monde. Dans ce brave nouveau monde du changement climatique et du développement durable, tous les chemins mènent à Rajendra K. Pachauri.

Source : Richard North

NDT : la présentation précédente est très incomplète, eu égard aux multiples talents et connexions du Dr. Pachauri, résumés (partiellement ?) ci-après  par Business Week  (je surligne);

    Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri is a Strategic Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. He has been a Director-General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) since April 2001. Dr. Pachauri has been Head of Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi (now known as The Energy and Resources Institute) since April 2001. 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. He served as Visiting Professor, Resource Economics at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University. Dr. Pachauri served as a Member of the faculty of several prominent academic and research institutions and has published 22 books and several papers and articles. He received the Padma Bhushan award. 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.

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Pachauri : conflict of interest

It looks as if the Indian media is taking the "Patchygate" affair seriously, with the New Delhi Mail Today taking on our revered "climate change hero" in a banner, front-page headline story, continued on a full page inside. The story is also online published by India Today.

Relying heavily on our story in The Sunday Telegraph - to which fulsome acknowledgement is given – journalist Ajmer Singh takes as his "line" the fact that Pachauri was on boards of oil and power utilities, with large carbon footprints, and got "crores-worth" (10 million rupees – about £140,000) of business for TERI from them.

Thus does Singh note that while Pachauri had advocated emission reductions at the recently concluded Copenhagen Climate Summit, "back home in India, he seems to be failing to uphold standards of propriety in his professional dealings."

We learn that, during his tenure, first as director from 1982, and then as director-general of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) since 2001, Pachauri was a member of the boards of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), three of India's biggest public sector energy companies, all of whom by the very nature of their business contribute heavily to greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions, according to the IPCC, are adding to the country's growing carbon footprint and hastening climate change.

TERI, in fact, entered into business dealings with these companies and allegedly benefitted from Pachauri's association with them. Pachauri's dealings, we are told, have also been noticed by the international media. Recently, The Sunday Telegraph of London had accused him of amassing a fortune using his links with carbon trading companies. Pachauri dismisses the report as "a pack of lies."

With a certain sense of irony, Pachauri is described as "the climate change hero" and Singh tells us he was an independent director on ONGC's board for three years between June 2006 and June 2009. During that time, he was entitled to first-class air travel when he attended meetings, five-star hotel stays and an allowance of 25,000 rupees for each meeting attended. This was in addition to having a say in the company's decision-making process. It was during this period that TERI had secured business contracts from ONGC.

This practice, writes Singh, is against ONGC's official code of conduct which says: "The directors and management shall act within the authority conferred upon them in the best interests of the company and will use their prudent judgment to avoid all situations, decisions or relationships which give or could give rise to conflict of interest or appear to conflict with their responsibilities within the company."

In his defence, Pachauri says he is now not on the board of any public sector undertaking, then declaring: "What is stated applies only for short periods in the past ... TERI is a not-for-profit organisation working for the welfare of society and its revenues cover costs and provide no private benefit to any party."

Singh is less than convinced. "Pachauri's position is untenable," he writes. As noted on this blog on 29 December, ONGC and TERI launched a joint business venture in March 2008 called ONGC-TERI Biotech Ltd (OTBL). This was while the TERI director-general was on its board. This entity's objective was the "large-scale application of microbial product oil zapper for clean-up of oil spills in farmers’ fields and around oil installations and treatment of oily sludge hazardous hydrocarbon waste."

When asked about this, Pachauri says "The joint venture (OTBL) was established largely at the insistence of ONGC. A decision to set up OTBL was taken only on October 31, 2006, at a board meeting that I did not even attend."

This evokes a somewhat jaundiced response from Singh: "Does that mean he wasn't even aware of the decision to set up OTBL?" OTBL was set up in 2008, and ONGC insiders state that all the work awarded to TERI was on a nomination basis and not through tenders, as is the accepted practice.

Climate change "hero" Pachauri hasn't finished though. He claims that 'TERI has not even charged OTBL any royalty for the technology provided to ONGC and other oil companies in India." Says our hero: "Any funds provided to TERI are purely to cover costs of activities carried out and performed successfully."

Unfortunately (for Pachauri) Singh has been speaking to a senior ONGC official. He confirms that close to Rs 30 crore (about £4 million) was paid directly and indirectly to TERI over a period of time for the execution of projects, which included bio-remediation, pipeline corrosion inhibitors and microbial enhanced oil recovery. OTBL was also involved in these transactions, he said.

Pachauri's response is a classic. He "denies" that TERI received the money, saying that OTBL "... is an independent entity with separate accounts, and any funding received from ONGC by OTBL is separate from any transactions involving OTBL and TERI." And OTBL is owned by?

Intriguingly, Singh notes, ONGC has two specialty labs — Institute of Reservoir Studies (IRS) in Ahmedabad and Institute of Biotechnology and Geo-Tectonics Studies (INBIGS) at Jorhat, Assam — to do what TERI was contracted to do. Both labs were set up to handle high- value, high- end and extremely specialised research.

Thus does Singh write that Pachauri concedes that the decision to set up OTBL was based on the work done jointly by TERI and IRS. "Pachauri may not see this as a conflict of interest, but former minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Santosh Gangwar said he had complained against it."

Gangwar actually demanded an inquiry against Pachauri in a letter I wrote to petroleum minister Murli Deora some time back. "This is a case of conflict of interest on Pachauri’s part. TERI is benefitting from ONGC," he says. Furthermore, the associate director of the environment NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, Chander Bhushan Singh says Pachauri and TERI need to come clean on their conflict of interest dealings with ONGC.


Needless to say, the noble Pachauri does not see it this way. "The presence of any TERI person on the board of a PSU (public service utility) cannot be seen as a conflict of interest just as the presence of a secretary to the government of India on TERI's governing council – which is the case – can be seen as serving the public interest."

On whether the association of anyone from TERI on PSU boards had served any public interest, he claimed: "It is [in] the larger public interest, with no private benefit to any party." Pachauri says projects were awarded to TERI because it served the objectives of PSUs.

In a delicious contradiction, Pachauri then says: "TERI's track record of successfully completing projects and serving the objectives of several PSUs is the reason why these were awarded to my organisation, with several of them going back in time well before I joined the boards of these organisations."

He then adds that, in "certain isolated incidents" he had recused (excluded himself) himself, but goes on to say: "The boards of the PSUs I have been associated with generally consist of over 20 members, and there is no way I could have influenced any decision within this structure even if I was a part of such a decision. "

So, he wasn't part of the decision, but even if he was, he couldn't possibly have influenced it ... honest Guv!

However, the OTBL issue is not unique. Pachauri was also on the board of another OTBL client — IOC — from January 1999 to September 2003. TERI signed a memorandum of collaboration with IOC to treat oil sludge, a waste product thrown up by oil refineries.

IOC uses the TERI-developed oil zapper technology to treat the waste. According to IOC, its mini-utility project for charging solar lanterns was launched in technical collaboration with TERI. Pachauri was also on the NTPC board from 2002 to 2005, and then from January 2006 onwards. In 2006, NTPC and TERI signed a MoU to implement rural electrification jointly through distributed generation schemes.

Under this project, TERI and NTPC identify suitable technology, and then fund and implement appropriate electricity delivery mechanisms.

Unsurprisingly, Pachauri had a reply for this too: "TERI took the initiative of providing that organisation with its biomass gasifier technology to set up power generation in villages that had no access to electricity. TERI did not charge any royalty for the technology developed over decades of research and development and was in fact reimbursed by NTPC sums that were far below costs incurred by TERI."

But, writes Singh, Pachauri's problems run deeper. The Sunday Telegraph of London, in a recent report, claimed Pachauri had established an "astounding worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations".

Pachauri's answer to this is: "I haven't pocketed a penny from my association with companies and institutes ... All honoraria I get go to TERI and to its 'Light A Billion Lives' campaign for reaching solar power to people without electricity."

The fact that Pachauri concedes (to us) that he is a "full-time salaried employee of TERI" is not stated here and nor is it noted that the climate change "hero" has not, to this day, revealed the size of that salary. Instead, he is allowed to say: "My dealings are above board."

"The climate change hero is quick with his answers," concludes Singh, "but doubts over his links linger." When our next The Sunday Telegraph story is published, however, there will be fewer "doubts", and a lot more certainty about the nature of Dr Pachauri's money-making enterprises and the payments to TERI.

This is the man who tells us, "no part of these payments is received by me from TERI either directly or indirectly" – despite his being a "full-time salaried employee of TERI", a man living the life-style of a multi-millionare.

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[Jacques]

L'article de PapyJako n'est pas récent : 11 janvier 2010.
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2010/01/11/1880155_le-president-du-giec-est-il-une-ordure.html
Et il reprend partiellement et commente India Today.

Voici une affaire qui va encore un peu alourdir le climat qui entoure l'affaire du ClimateGate !... C'est par l'affirmation "Pachauri est une ordure" que l'excellente "Gazette du ClimateGate" de Vincent Bénard présente l'article publié dans l'édition de Dimanche de l'hebdomadaire Indien "India Today".

Rajendra Pachauri, Président du GIEC

Vincent Bénard n'apporte pas la preuve de son assertion, mais le contenu de l'article de India Today est pour le moins troublant.

La première page de l'hebdomadaire titre "Pachauri dans des conflits d'intérêt" et le sous-titre est "Le héros du Changement Climatique faisait partie de conseils d'administration de firmes pétrolières et d'énergie à forte empreinte carbone, et a obtenu d'elles des affaires valant des dizaines de millions pour TERI"

L'article lui-même est titré "Pachauri in a spot as ClimateGate hits TERI".("Pachauri sous les projecteurs alors que le ClimateGate atteint TERI")

Rappel des épisodes récents

Rappelons  tout d'abord que TERI (The Energy Research Institute) est une institution internationale de 700 employés, dont Rajendra Pachauri est Directeur Général depuis sa création, et  qui opère dans le domaine de l'énergie.

A sa création en 1981, l'activité concernait surtout le pétrole et le charbon, mais TERI est aujourd'hui largement engagé dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables dont le GIEC, avec le même Rajendra Pachauri comme Président, est le principal promoteur mondial.

Les nombreux conflits d'intérêt de Rajendra Pachauri ont été évoqués de longue date. Ils ont été récemment évoqués de façon précise, dans un article du Telegraph par Christopher Booker et Richard North, le 20 décembre dernier.

L'article du Telegraph - écrit à la suite d'une communication de Lord Monckton - dénonçait l'incroyable réseau de liens entretenus par Rajendra Pachauri avec des entités qui ont investi des milliards de dollars dans des entreprises qui dépendent directement des recommandations du GIEC.

L'article évoquait en particulier des banques, des entreprises pétrolières et du domaine de l'énergie, des fonds d'investissements largement investis dans le commerce des crédits carbone et des énergies renouvelables, dans lesquels Rajendra Pachauri occupe des postes de dirigeant ou de conseil.

Etaient notamment cités, à titre d'exemples, Indian Oil, où Rajendra Pachauri occupait un poste de Directeur jusqu'en 2003, GloriOil, firme texane qu'il a créée en 2005, et National Thermal Power Corporation - le plus grand producteur d'électricité Indien, où il était encore Directeur l'an dernier (n'oubliez pas ces références la prochaine fois que quelqu'un vous interpelle sur l'appui des " lobbies pétroliers " aux sceptiques du climat).

Mais le point d'ancrage de ce réseau d'influence est le "Tata Energy Research Institute" (Tata est le plus grand groupe industriel Indien), dont Rajendra Pachauri est Directeur dès 1981, dont il devient Directeur Général en 2001 et qui a été renommé TERI depuis.

Des détails sur plusieurs projets importants menés par TERI, financés par l'Union Européenne, et impliquant directement ou indirectement le groupe Tata, étaient donnés dans l'article du Telegraph.

Les développements nouveaux

Ce qui est nouveau est que l'affaire commence à faire du bruit en Inde même, où India Today cité plus haut s'est saisi de l'affaire. L'article contient une multitudes de détails sur les relations croisées entre les différentes entreprises citées par Le Telegraoh - et d'autres - le fait troublant est qu'à chaque croisement on retrouve le nom de Rajendra Pachauri, ou celui de TERI, ou celui de TATA.

Il est impossible de résumer ici l'incroyable écheveau de relations entre toutes ces entités. Si vous lisez l'Anglais, lisez l'article de India Today, ou alors attendez un peu les futurs développements, lorsque cela sera un peu décanté.

La principale défense de Rajendra Pachauri est que TERI est une organisation qui ne fait pas de profit, et que les sommes dont le Telegraph et India Today ont pu établir les versements ne lui ont pas profité directement, mais ont été versées à TERI.

Cela a d'ailleurs été confirmé par TERI, mais le problème est que, à l'instar de toutes ces grandes organisations internationales, les comptes de TERI ne sont pas rendus publics et que, pour le moment donc, la seule "preuve" d'innocence de Rajendra Pachauri est la parole de TERI. Manque de chance, le Directeur Général de TERI est justement Rajendra Pachauri.

Le contenu du rapport annuel public de TERI est édifiant. C'est un rapport de 172 pages dont la partie financière "Financial Summary" tient en une seule page, qui ne révèle aucun chiffre absolu. Seules les répartitions des recettes et dépenses sont données sous la forme des deux graphiques suivants :

Noter le troublant "Voyages et dépenses de recherche", qui représente plus de 40% du budget. Etant donné la liste des autres postes, je parie ma chemise que ce poste est principalement composé de voyages ... ni à bicyclette, ni à pédalo ...

Nul doute que, si les autorités Indiennes décident d'éclaircir les questions soulevées par India Today, l'examen du détail de ce budget va révéler des choses intéressantes.

Conclusion

En attendant donc, au contraire de ce qu'a affirmé Vincent Bénard, on ne dispose aujourd'hui d'aucune preuve formelle que Rajendra Pachauri soit une ordure. Mais nous en aurons peut-être bientôt.

Affaire à suivre avec une extrême attention.

PS : Voir WattsUpWithThat pour des détails et d'intéressants commentaires (en Anglais)

PPS : Le site Eureferendum rapporte une découverte édifiante :

- Une subvention de 30 417 Livres Sterling (34 000 €) est versée par DEFRA (le Ministère de l'Environnement Anglais), à l'Université de Cambridge,

- Cette subvention est reversée par l'Université à la branche Européenne de TERI. Tiens tiens ... cette organisation Indienne dont le Directeur Général est Rajendra Pachauri,

- TERI utilise les fonds pour payer le salaire et les frais de voyage d'un scientifique Néo-Zélandais travaillant pour le GIEC. Tiens tiens, cette Organisation Onusienne dont le Président est Rajendra Pachauri !...

Ce type de cheminement financier tortueux, au lieu d'un financement direct de DEFRA au GIEC, est très exactement la méthode - le brouillage des pistes -qu'utilisent les mafias financières désireuses de blanchir de l'argent de provenance douteuse.

Les enquéteurs officiels, si tout cela n'est pas enterré, vont avoir du boulot !