UN climate deadline turns out to be 'flexible'

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Source: bbc

The UN climate convention says nations signing up to the accord reached at last month's summit will not have to do so by the deadline of 31 January.

The "Copenhagen Accord" asks countries to send figures by the end of the month on how much they will curb emissions.

But amid uncertainty over who is going to sign up, climate convention head Yvo de Boer said the deadline was "soft".

He said the Copenhagen summit had not delivered the "agreement the world needs" to address climate change.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8471593.stm

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not the "agreement the world needs" - that's for sure.