The world community may need another 10 years to agree on carbon cuts deep enough to roll back global warming, the UN's pointman for climate change warned on Monday. "I don't see the process delivering adequate mitigation targets in the next decade," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said in a webcast from Bonn. "Over the longer term, I think we will get this issue under control. Having said that, I do believe that it's a longer journey," de Boer said. De Boer spoke on the sidelines of a 12-day round of negotiations for a post-2012 treaty to curb "greenhouse" gases blamed for disrupting Earth's climate system. The pact was supposed to have been sealed at a summit in Copenhagen last December, but the negotiations failed.

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