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Climate change solutions not always good for biodiversity

PARIS — Some approaches to tackling global warming can have unintended knock-on consequences for nature and the protection of biodiversity, say scientists urging a more coordinated effort on these challenges.

'Sometimes by trying to find a solution to a problem, we risk creating damage elsewhere,' Anne Larigauderie at the Intergovernmental Scientific and Political Platform on Biodiversity (Ipbes), an expert independent body, said.