January 10, 2010 6:38 PM

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India to hold discussion with BASIC group members

India will hold discussion with other BASIC group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi in third week of this month to discuss their climate strategy. The Environment Minister Mr.Jairam Ramesh said in New Delhi today, the main challenge is that an agreement by 29 countries needs to be converted into one by 194 countries. The accord pledges to keep the increase in global temperatures below two degrees Celsius. It also calls upon developed countries to commit 100 billion US Dollars by 2020 to the developing world to help emerging economies deal with their emissions. However ,it does not include any caps on carbon emissions.<br/> Our correspondent reports, India on its part has a national action plan, commitment to reduce emission intensity by 20-25 per cent from 2005 levels and setting up of an expert group to look at low-carbon growth strategies to submit under the Accord. Countries, including the US, China and India, at UN summit in Copenhagen last month took note of the the deal between BASIC countries and the US and they were given deadline of 31st of January to list actions and targets to curb greenhouse gases.

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