Climate Treaty Talks May Last an Extra Year, UN Says

Climate Treaty Talks May Last an Extra Year, UN Says

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A global climate-protection treatymay need an extra year of negotiations, the United Nations’ topclimate-change official said in an interview.

Yvo de Boer, who has supervised almost two years of climatediscussions, said insufficient progress has been made toconclude a treaty at a summit in Denmark’s capital next month.

“I don’t think we can get a legally binding agreement byCopenhagen,” he told Bloomberg Television in Barcelona, wherehe’s overseeing the penultimate round talks that will endtomorrow. “I think that we can get that within a year afterCopenhagen.”

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