UN climate chief: Hacked e-mails are damaging (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sun, 12/06/2009 - 9:35am

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2008 file photo, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer speaks during a news conference in Poznan, Poland.<br /><br />Money on the table could help close a deal in Denmark next month keeping climate talks moving toward a new global treaty in 2010.<br /><br />Too little up front at the U.N.'s Copenhagen conference could be a deal-breaker. The money would help poorer nations cope with ocean flooding, drought and other effects of climate change, and to cut down on their own emissions of global-warming gases.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File)AP - The world is entering talks on a new climate pact with unprecendented unity and leaders must seize the moment to create a turning point in the battle against global warming, the U.N.'s top climate official said Sunday.

At a news conference, Yvo de Boer called on the 192 nations represented at the U.N. climate summit starting Monday "to deliver a strong and long-term response to the challenge of climate change."



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