On Saturday climate change delegates continued their latest round of negotiations on implementing the Paris Agreement at the UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland.
The delegates at COP24 worked to agree on a so-called “rulebook” for the Paris Agreement that spells out a cohesive set of standards and procedures for enacting emissions-reducing policies to be followed by treaty signatories.
A major sticking point in negotiations was hammering out a new set of transparency standards. Negotiators and NGOs representing developing countries at COP24 have said that the rulebook would impose new and difficult guidelines on them, while letting developed countries set the rules and ignore the consequences.
In full: https://www.dw.com/en/asia-faces-tough-contradictions-in-dealing-with-climate-change/a-46757463
