U.N. climate talks advance on forests and industry

ACCRA (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks in Ghana are making progress on ways to help developing nations slow deforestation and have eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas targets for industrial sectors, delegates said on Monday.

“It’s moving pretty well now,” Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters of the August 21-27 talks which are defining the building blocks of a new U.N. global warming pact meant to be agreed by the end of 2009.

“We’re getting beyond some of the rhetoric,” he said of the 160-nation meeting among about 1,500 delegates. “People are beginning to understand each other better.”

Reuters