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Global health care systems hang in the balance of U.N. climate talks

Air pollution concentrations tied to greenhouse gases worsened in almost 70% of cities from 2010 to 2016.

Protesters in Melbourne, Australia on the eve of the climate summit in Poland
Protesters in Melbourne, Australia on the eve of the climate summit in Poland (AN/John Englart)

Propelled by an environmental U.N. chief and support from nearly all G-20 nations, a global climate summit launched in a Polish coal mining city with public health stakes that could not be higher.

Almost 200 nations gathered for climate talks to work out a new rulebook for what nations must do to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement's goal of preventing too much global warming.

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