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Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accord

KATOWICE, Dec 4: Negotiators gathered for the U.N. climate talks in Poland are getting down to the nitty-gritty part of the two-week meeting.
By Associated Press

KATOWICE, Dec 4: 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.


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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 man-made emissions of greenhouses gases must be reduced to net zero by 2050 to stop catastrophic warming this century.

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