By Andrew Hough, Telegraph.co.uk
The chairman of the United Nations' climate science panel has issued a robust defence of his organisation and refused to apologise for a mistaken claim that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
Rajendra Pachauri admitted the UN climate change panel had been damaged over its mistakes.Photo: GEORGES GOBET/GETTY
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the assertion in its 2007 report had "cost us dear" in the fight against global warming and helped boost the efforts of sceptics.
Despite the IPCC previously admitting it had made a mistake in its assessment on climate change, Dr Pachauri refused to personally apologise for the error because he was not responsible for that part of the report.
In an interview published on Wednesday, the IPPC chairman said a personal apology would be a "populist" step as he continued to refuse calls to resign.
"You can't expect me to be personally responsible for every word in a 3,000 page report," he said.
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