Katowice to host UN climate summit

Poland's coal capital, and one of the most polluted cities in Europe, Katowice, will host the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference. “2018 will be another important year for international climate diplomacy as nations move forward to implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement – indeed 2018 is when governments are expected to reach some key milestones. These range from finalizing the guidelines for fully operationalizing the agreement to taking stock of how countries are doing collectively in terms of being on track to realize Paris’s aims and ambitions over the coming years and decades,” said Patricia Espinosa, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention will take place in the Spodek arena. Besides Katowice, Gdańsk was also considered to host the event. This will be the third time, Poland will be hosting the UN climate summit after Poznań in 2008 and Warsaw in 2013