Paris climate treaty: Heads of the delegations react at the end of the final session of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland. Photo: APKatowice: Nations on Sunday struck a deal to implement the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world’s most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming. At their heart, negotiations were about how each nation funds action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as how those actions are reported. This would see richer countries giving money now to help deal with the effects of climate change many vulnerable states are already experiencing. Most nations wanted the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to form a key part of future planning.

Source: Mint December 16, 2018 04:18 UTC