Climate Changed
Green Groups Are Set to Crash Into Global Populists Over Pollution Cuts
Demands for deeper pollution cuts run against the grain of recent activism in France and beyond
Spodek Hall in Katowice, Poland, where the United Nations held its COP24 conference on climate change.
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The global environmental movement set itself on a collision course with populists from Australia to France and the U.S. over an agenda of ever-tightening curbs on pollution.
Fresh from endorsing rules to implement the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, diplomats, along with pressure groups and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, are shifting toward persuading governments to back deeper cuts in fossil fuel emissions.