Special Broadcasting Service: United Nations talks tasked with delivering a planet-saving climate treaty by year’s end will fail unless the pace picks up, the UN’s top climate official said yesterday. Pacific islands seek low – cost storm protection Warming could exceed EU’s "dangerous" threshold Add your comment "If we continue at this rate we are not going to make it," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said at the end of a five-day negotiating …