Katowice COP24 Notebook: 'Ill-thought out' taxes fuel protest


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 Dec 2018

The city centre of Katowice is pictured during the COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

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 meet 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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