With the next round of international climate change negotiations set to start from Thursday in Accra, Ghana, enough signals have emerged that the talks may not make any substantial headway. But it could see sparks fly with India out to stub any attempts by Japan, EU and US to firm up an agenda against it and China. Speaking to TOI, Yvoe De Boer, the man in the hot seat as the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said, "It would be difficult to discuss national targets (for GHG gas reductions) before the next US administration is in place.' While developed countries already have targets under the Kyoto Protocol, the compact's first phase is to expire in 2012 and the rich countries want developing countries like India to also take on commitments. Long term goals too are to be set this time around. But India would be wary about Trojan horses that Japan and other countries have been launching at the negotiations. Japan had earlier floated the idea of "sectoral targets'