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Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates
by Staff Writers
Paris (AFP) June 26, 2015


Delhi court allows India's Pachauri to visit US
New Delhi (AFP) June 27, 2015 - An Indian court Saturday allowed former UN climate panel head Rajendra Pachauri, who is currently facing sexual harassment charges, to travel abroad to attend the last rites of a relative, a lawyer said.

Pachauri, 74, was barred from travelling abroad by a New Delhi court in April pending a police investigation after a female researcher at his research institute accused him of sexual harassment in February.

"The court allowed him to attend his brother-in-law's last rites in the Hawaii from June 29 to July 9 on a surety bond of 100,000 rupees," lawyer Prashant Mendiratta, who represents the complainant, told AFP.

The court asked him to report to the nearest Indian consulate in US, he said, adding they will not challenge the court order citing humanitarian grounds.

Pachauri's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

Earlier this week, officers from Delhi police questioned Pachauri for first time at his New Delhi residence.

Police grilled him for hours based on the evidence provided by the 29-year-old woman, who accused him of sexually harassing her through repeated inappropriate emails, text and WhatsApp messages.

Pachauri, a leading voice on the dangers of global warming, has denied the allegations and said his emails and mobile phone were hacked.

A court granted him anticipatory bail and asked the police to complete the investigations before a hearing next month.

The woman's harassment complaint forced him to step down as the chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and take a long leave from the New Delhi-based Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), where both of them worked.

Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday.

Pulling money out of carbon-heavy industry must be coupled with large spending on alternative technologies to make any difference, said the Microsoft mogul who is under fire for his charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's reported $1.4-billion (1.3-billion-euro) investment in carbon-spewing companies like BP.

The Financial Times reported an announcement Friday by Gates that he will invest $2 billion in green energy, but would not pull his money out of companies that pump out carbon emissions blamed for the planet-warming greenhouse effect.

"I think the solution is investment," Gates said later in Paris on the sidelines of the Solidays anti-AIDS-themed concert, which he backs.

"My concern is that I love the fact that students and people care about climate change, and I don't want to make them think that if they get people to divest that they've solved climate change."

Gates, who speaks of climate change as a major threat to the planet, said he was "not really against divestment", as long as it was coupled with "some serious investments in breakthrough technology."

People may become cynical "if we don't tell them which actions really make a difference and which ones don't," said Gates.

In response to a grassroots movement modelled on 1980s opposition to apartheid in South Africa, companies, banks and investment funds, primarily European, have in recent weeks announced they will halt investments in coal and other carbon-emitting industries.

High-profile examples included the Church of England, the University of Glasgow in Scotland and Stanford University in California.

Norway's parliament voted this month to pull its sovereign wealth fund -- the world's biggest -- out of coal, and French energy group Total has said it plans to end its coal activities.

The world's nations are negotiating a new, global pact, which must be inked in Paris in December, to curb climate change through greenhouse gas emission cuts.

The goal is to limit average global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this would require annual greenhouse gas cuts of 40-70 percent by 2050, compared to levels in 2010 -- and to zero or below by 2100.


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