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Ghana: Accra Talks Bode Well for Future Climate Change Negotiations - UN Official. U.N. News Service, August 27, 2008. ”Important progress has been made during the latest round of United Nations-led climate change talks in Accra, Ghana, on key issues relating to a new international agreement to tackle global warming, the world body's top official dealing with the issue said on Wednesday. The Accra meeting was the latest in a series of UN-sponsored talks in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The aim of the negotiations is to create a successor pact to the Kyoto Protocol, with first-round commitments ending in 2012, on greenhouse gas emissions reduction... Highlighting the progress made during the past week, Mr. de Boer, who is the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said d there was an ‘encouraging and important’ debate on the important topic of deforestation and forest conservation, which was crucial since deforestation accounts for about 20 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions for which humans are responsible... Some 1,600 participants, including government delegates from 160 countries and representatives from environmental organizations, business and industry and research institutions, attended the Accra meeting -- the third major UN-led negotiating session this year and the last before the Poznan conference in December.”