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France and Japan propose an 'IPCC for nature'
World governments are meeting this week to try to set up a new international body that would put the global destruction of the natural world on an equal footing with the threat of climate change.

The proposed new organisation would be modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), which was set up 22 years ago.

Since then, it has launched global warming and climate change to the top of the political and economic agenda....