The president of Ghana and the U.N.'s top climate official have warned that time is running out to negotiate a new agreement on global warming, Associated Press reported. President John Kufuor says his country already is witnessing severe droughts and flooding because of climate change. He is urging delegates at a U.N. conference to help African states cope with such climate shocks by, for example, helping them maintain forests. U.N. official Yvo de Boer says the delegates have less than a year to complete a draft treaty to regulate carbon emissions. De Boer said at Thursday's meeting of 160 countries that the pace of the two-year negotiating process must speed up to meet their deadline.
