WARSAW, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ahead of December's COP24 climate summit, the PreCOP talks held this week brought an increasing convergence of positions on many issues, Polish deputy environment minister Michal Kurtyka said on Wednesday in Krakow, southern Poland.
These days of discussion allow the parties to better understand what the negotiation challenges are, test different types of solutions, and look for compromises which can be acceptable for all parties, Kurtyka said. He also expressed hope the COP24 summit could bring about the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
The PreCOP conference of climate ministers from United Nations (UN) member states, which ended on Wednesday, was a preparatory meeting ahead of the COP24 talks. The conference gathered delegates from around 40 countries and global business representatives.
"What we would like to achieve (on the COP24 in Katowice) is an agreement of all 195 countries on a worldwide scale," Kurtyka announced, stressing that the rules set in Katowice are to set the global climate policy for the next decades.
Earlier on Tuesday, Polish Environment Minister Henryk Kowalczyk said the PreCOP talks were a huge opportunity for essential progress in the negotiations, and was the best possible preparation for the climate summit in December.
According to the minister, the talks focused on an implementation package for the Paris Agreement and setting guidelines for the COP24 summit's negotiators.
Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) underlined the COP24 talks in Katowice would be the most important climate summit since the signing of the Paris Agreement, especially taking into consideration that the global warming process could soon get out of control.
The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) will be held in Katowice between Dec. 3 and 14.
