U.N.'s chief Guterres: "We are off-track, we need more ambition"

"Katowice is an essential platform for that ambition to be possible," the U.N. Secretary General told reporters at a joint news conference with Poland's president, Andrzej Duda. Guterres said he remained optimistic that "political will will increase" and climate change will be defeated.

The talks in Katowice have been billed as the most important U.N. conference since the landmark Paris accord as they precede an end-of-year deadline to agree a "rule book" on how to enforce action to limit global warming to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius.

Expectations for the Polish talks are low: the atmosphere of political unity built in Paris has been shattered by a wave of populist governments that place national agendas before collective action.

Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 International, Reuters