Accra - The latest round of United Nations climate talks got underway in Ghanian capital Accra Thursday, with over a thousand delegates gathering for a week to iron out the technical details of a new climate change treaty.

Talks in Bangkok in April set up a work programme for a long-term international agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen by the end of 2009.

The Bangkok talks followed on from the landmark Bali Action Plan, which set plans to cut global carbon emissions by 2015 and slash them by 2050, thus reducing the chances of extreme weather events and a rise in sea level brought about by global warming.