KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Negotiators gathered for the U.N. climate talks in Poland are getting down to the nitty-gritty part of the two-week meeting.
Diplomats from almost 200 countries began holding a series of technical talks Tuesday aimed at
finalizing the rules
that define the 2015 Paris accord on curbing global warming.
Decisions on crunch issues are expected to be left to ministers when they return to the southern Polish city of Katowice next week.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a
dramatic appeal
to governments Monday to confront the threat of unchecked climate change.
Scientists say
manmade emissions of greenhouses gases must be reduced to net zero by 2050 to stop catastrophic warming this century.
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