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Leading article: The outlook is as bleak as ever
Public concern about climate change has rather eclipsed concerns about biodiversity loss in recent years – and for obvious reasons. But the two challenges are intimately connected. As reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made clear, one of the malign impacts of a warmer world will be the accelerated extinction of plant and animal species. So the timing of the next fortnight's United Nations biodiversity convention in Japan – and the spotlight it will throw on the destruction of a swath of natural life on the planet – has to be welcome.
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• Steve Richards: The dangers that stalk Johnson
How can Labour win an election offering tax rises against Conservative tax cuts?
• Dominic Lawson: A parallel morality for celebrities
Fame does not transform crass behaviour into something marvellous
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If the guardians of law and order cannot hold the line here, what hope elsewhere?




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