Mrs Merkel backed the idea of forming a scientific panel to collate and assess research on biodiversity loss, as the IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC) assesses evidence on climatic indicators.
He sides with his father, an eminent climate scientist, in believing that the consensus view of climatechange, as set forth by the IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC), understates human influence on the climate.
Although individual studies and reports down the years have flagged up climatechange as likely to increase the spread of malaria markedly, the 2007 IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC) report did not.