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Prime Minister of Fiji and COP 23 President Frank Bainimarama talks with the President of COP 24 Michal Kurtyka, right, as Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, looks on during the opening of COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva, the President of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, Prime Minister of Fiji and COP 23 President Frank Bainimarama, Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, Michal Kurtyka, President of the COP24, and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, from left, gather for the opening of the Climate Change Conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General delivers a speech during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 03, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as the COP24 summit officially opened in Poland. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General delivers a speech during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 03, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as the COP24 summit officially opened in Poland. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General delivers a speech during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 03, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as the COP24 summit officially opened in Poland. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General delivers a speech during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 03, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said as the COP24 summit officially opened in Poland. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Leaders and negotiators from almost 200 nations from around the globe listen to speeches during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 3, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
The United Nations' Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gives a speech during the opening of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 3, 2018. - The world is "way off course" in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the United Nations warned as nations gathered in Poland to chart a way for mankind to avert runaway global warming. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
The Katowice climate conference was seen as particularly important for its role in finalizing the practical agreements of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the fact that the World Meteorological Association warned of the damage caused by climate change. climate change since the last conference.
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (C) leads the inaugural session at the the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (on screen) speaks during the inaugural session at the the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (on screen) speaks during the inaugural session at the the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (on screen) speaks during the inaugural session at the the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Nigeria's representatives attend the inaugural session at the the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (L) and Mexican politician Patricia Espinosa (L), currently serving as Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change give a press conference during the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, on December 02, 2018. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (L) and Mexican Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa (R) give a press conference during the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Polish Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment, Government Plenipotentiary for COP24 Presidency, Michal Kurtyka (L) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Mexican Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa (C) and spokesman Alex Saier give a press conference during the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Members of environmental group Greenpeace give a press conference during the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Greenpeace members reacted after a Slovakian court's decision to hold twelve Greenpeace activists in pre-trial detention after they scaled a mine's tower to fly a banner asking for an "end to the era of coal". Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
Members of environmental group Greenpeace give a press conference during the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) summit on December 2, 2018 in Katowice, Poland. - Greenpeace members reacted after a Slovakian court's decision to hold twelve Greenpeace activists in pre-trial detention after they scaled a mine's tower to fly a banner asking for an "end to the era of coal". Representatives from nearly 200 countries began crunch UN climate talks in Poland against a backdrop of dire environmental warnings and a call for action against the "urgent" threats posed by climate change. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)