Leading Chinese climate scientist honored French medal

BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Chinese media) -- A leading Chinese climate scientist has

received a prestigious French medal for promoting research cooperation between

China and France.

Qin Dahe, a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) member and a leading figure

on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been awarded the

Grenoble Medal by the government of Grenoble City, the CAS announced on its

website.

Previous Grenoble Medal recipients include Nobel Prize winners Claude

Cohen-Tannoudji and Paul Crutzen, glaciologist Claude Lorius and European Space

Agency astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier.

Cooperating with the Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of the

Environment at Joseph Fourier University in France, Qin led research teams to

discover new data on climate change in the SouthPole and the Himalayas.

Qin, 61, was the first Chinese to cross the South Pole.