Ministers - but few leaders - arrive for crucial part of climate talks


  • World
  • Wednesday, 12 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO - Participants take part in the plenary session during COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Brexit turmoil and French riots have kept many government chiefs away from the final and crucial week of U.N. climate talks, with only four national leaders present on Tuesday.

Some 190 countries are meeting in Katowice, Poland to agree a "rule book" on implementing the Paris climate deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in what has been billed as the most important U.N. conference since that pact was agreed in 2015.

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