Climate agreement may not happen in 2009, says UN official

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Poznan, Poland-United Nations climate talks may not meet a self-imposed deadline of reaching a final agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen next year, the UN's top climate official acknowledged December 9. "I think we must not try to reach too far and achieve nothing," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaking at the UN climate talks in Poznan, Poland.