Urgent: UN climate talks kick off in Warsaw
2013-11-11 10:40:46
WARSAW, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The annual UN global climate talks started here Monday amid hopes for steady progress to pave the way for the signing of a new climate deal by 2015, but no major breakthrough was expected.
Thousands of representatives from nearly 200 nations gathered in the national stadium for the two-week-long negotiations formally known as the COP 19, or the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).