February 26, 2011 1:32 PM

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BASIC countries meet in Delhi to discuss climate change

Environment Ministers of the four BASIC countries will meet in New Delhi on Sunday to work out an action plan at the global and national level to tackle climate change. Ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China will deliberate the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol , review the commitments, actions of developed countries and assess the post Cancun climate change policy. Representatives from Argentina, Algeria and Maldives have also been invited to the meeting as observers. AIR correspondent reports that the meeting assumes significance as it will first major international conference of any group of countries since December last when Cancun Agreements were reached. Environment Minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh has said that in the last 15 months members of the Basic countries have become a powerful force within the climate change negotiations and are evolving a coordinated approach to important negotiating issues. He said that that grouping will continue to work closely to ensure a positive outcome at Durban where the seventeenth conference of the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held while advancing the interests of emerging economies and its partners.

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