THE UN’s top climate official said yesterday she expects governments to make a long-delayed decision on whether industrial countries should make further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

THE new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past two-and-a-half years begins with a brief document called A Shared Vision.

The industrial world is hurling more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before and governments have just a few years to avert calamitous climate change, the UN climate secretariat said today.