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France and 45 other countries call for world environmental monitor
PARIS: Forty-five nations joined France in calling for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet, a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators. Absent were the world's heavyweight polluter, the United States, China and India, booming nations on the same path. The effort Saturday, led by President Jacques Chirac of France, came a day after the release of an authoritative, and disturbingly grim, scientific report saying that global warming was "very likely" caused by mankind, and that climate change would continue for centuries even if heat-trapping gases were reduced. It was the strongest language ever used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose last report was issued in 2001.
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