Sequel to the Paris climate accord is developing in Vienna
Washington
WHEN negotiators from nearly 200 countries gathered outside Paris in December for the United Nations summit meeting on climate change, they reached the first agreement to take action on curbing their planet-warming pollution.
This weekend in Vienna, with far less attention, negotiators from those same countries are nearing a deal that many environmentalists have called the most significant action this year to reduce global warming.
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