About 180 nations met for UN climate talks on Monday to prepare for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. The head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, said “time is running out.”

Yvo de Boer: “As you know, we have just over 115 days left until Copenhagen, about five weeks of negotiating time. We have a very complicated text on the table, and the challenge for this session is going to be to narrow that text down and really try and identify the core elements of a Copenhagen agreement.”