India will resist any attempt to bring black carbon within the ambit of the UN framework convention on climate change negotiations. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said at Cancun, where the UN talks on Climate Change are on, that India is not a major carbon emitter. Agreeing that Black carbon is bad for health he said New Delhi intends to battle the gas and plans to launch a national programme for monitoring and controlling it.According to a professor of atmospheric physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a Black carbon or soot, is produced from the incomplete combustion of diesel fuel. He said the world can easily get rid of it. Other potent warming agents include methane, some hydrofluorocarbons and dark soot particles. Ramanathan said soot is responsible for some 1.9 million deaths a year. Soots from India, China and a few other countries melts ice and snow packs, and threatens water supplies fed by the Himalayan-Tibetan rivers.