Representatives from 194 countries gathered Monday in Warsaw for the opening of the 19th UN climate change conference, where details of a new global warming pact are to be hammered out over the next two weeks. "We all feel the effects of climate change," said Polish Environment Minister Marcin Korolec during remarks on the disaster wrought by Typhoon Haiyan at the weekend in the Philippines, where thousands are feared dead. At a 2011 conference in Durban, the international community agreed to develop a new global climate agreement setting emission targets for all 194 member states of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This agreement is meant to be concluded in 2015 in Paris and to come into effect by 2020.
