United Nations, Dec 13 (UNI) With roadblocks continuing at the COP24 climate change conference over how to implement the historic 2015 Paris Agreement, United Nations chief António Guterres returned to Poland, to challenge the more than 100 Government leaders gathered in Katowice to find consensus and 'finish the job.'
“In my opening statement to this conference one week ago…I warned that climate change is running faster than we are and that Katowice must — in no uncertain terms — be a success, as a necessary platform to reverse this trend,” said Secretary-General Guterres.
Since 2 December, the conference has brought together thousands of climate action decision-makers, advocates and activists, with one key objective, adopting global guidelines for the 197 parties of the 2015 Paris Agreement, when countries committed to limiting global warming to less than 2°C – and as close as possible to 1.5° – above pre-industrial levels.