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Katowice Climate Change Conference to begin

The Katowice Climate Change Conference, which includes the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, will be held from Dec 2 to 14 in Poland.

The most important task of COP24 will be to finalize and adopt the rules for implementing the Paris Agreement under the Paris Agreement Work Program, to ensure it can take effect in 2020.

The UN climate change conference is an annual global conference during which climate change policy is being negotiated.