UN establishes IPBES - the "IPCC for nature"

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Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to advise on global state of biodiversity

A new UN body tasked with analysing and reporting on the global state of biodiversity was created yesterday in a move that is expected to better promote the extent to which economies are dependent upon...

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