Katowice COP24 Notebook: Counting the cost


  • World
  • Tuesday, 04 Dec 2018

Environmental activists display signs inside the venue of the COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland, December 4, 2018

KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Talks billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 deal on climate change have begun in the Polish city of Katowice, the capital of the Silesian mining district.

The aim is to make an end-of-year deadline for agreeing a rule book on how to enforce global action to limit further warming of the planet.

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