Climate goals

THE UN’s top climate change official has said he is confident a new global warming deal can be agreed this year, but key issues remain unresolved.

Yvo de Boer said industrialised countries are still far from committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the scale required. Mr De Boer spoke as a negotiating session in Bonn attended by 183 countries closed. A effort to secure a deal will take place in Copenhagen this December.