AFP: Spotlight will return on climate change, says Pachauri

CANCUN, Mexico — 2010 has been an annus horribilis for climate change and his Nobel-winning scientists, but Rajendra Pachauri is confident that time will turn the tide.

"There are always ups and downs, and one just has to learn from them and live with them," the chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on the sidelines of global climate talks. "I think this is only a kind of temporary blip."

Pachauri agreed that climate change had nearly fallen off the political map after the near-bustup at last year's Copenhagen summit -- and, he admitted, by flaws within his own organization.
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If the IPCC has been tarnished in 2010, the neutrality and objectiveness of the panel's work will restore luster, Pachauri argued.