{"id":24057,"date":"2018-12-02T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2018-12-02T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:22:24","slug":"cop24-climate-conference-in-the-heart-of-polands-coal-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24057","title":{"rendered":"COP24: Climate conference in the heart of Poland&#8217;s coal country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There&#8217;s a certain irony that when world leaders meet in early December at the COP24 global climate conference, they will be doing so in the heart of Poland&#8217;s coal country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The host city of Katowice is in the center of Silesia, a region that is home to about <a href=\"https:\/\/euracoal.eu\/info\/country-profiles\/poland\/\" target=\"_blank\">90,000 coal workers<\/a> &#8212; around <a href=\"https:\/\/euracoal.eu\/info\/key-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\">half of all the coal workers<\/a> in the EU.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Coal is hugely important for Poland. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently referred to it as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.premier.gov.pl\/en\/news\/news\/prime-minister-mateusz-morawiecki-coal-is-our-black-gold.html\" target=\"_blank\">our black gold<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There&#8217;s a certain irony that when world leaders meet in early December at the COP24 global climate conference, they will be doing so in the heart of Poland&#8217;s coal country.The host city of Katowice is in the center of Silesia, a region that is home to about 90,000 coal workers &#8212; around half of all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}