Ministers trooped into Katowice over the weekend as the climate negotiations moved into high gear on Monday.
On Sunday itself, the Polish presidency requested ministers from Germany and Egypt to try to resolve the wide differences that continued to hold between developed and developing countries on climate finance.
The presidency is expected to similarly request multiple sets of two ministers each - one from developing and another from the developed world - to try and resolve differences in other politically-sensitive parts of the Paris Agreement rulebook.
India's Union minister for environment, forests and climate change won't be in attendance as