VIENNA, July 15 (UPI) -- Climate change expert Rajendra K. Pachauri has been named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization in Vienna.
Pachauri, an economist and environmental scientist from India, heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations said in a release.