Time running out for climate change deal, says UN official

Time was running out today for agreement on a road map towards a new international deal on global warming, the UN’s top climate official warned.

Executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer said he was “very concerned at the pace of things” as a group of ministers met in a bid to thrash out differences over the text of the agenda for a deal which it is hoped will be agreed in 2009.