An open, transparent and consensus based environment policy will be the prime area of focus when Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh attends a ministerial meet in Cancun on Thursday and Friday. He will discuss strategies for the crucial UN summit on climate change scheduled later this month. Before leaving for the meet, Ramesh said that he was not very hopeful of any agreement given the way the developed countries had failed to meet their obligations whether it was on carbon emission front or in releasing climate fund to the developing nations to meet the challenges. However, he was of the opinion that certain agreements on forestry and clean technology might be arrived upon at the meeting to be attended by over 192 UN members. India along with other BASIC members including Brazil, China and South Africa have been emphasising that the outcome of Cancun conference should be based on the balance between and within the two negotiating tracks under UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and Kyoto Protocol, and that it should be open, transparent, inclusive, party-driven and based on consensus. The climate change conference in Copenhagen last year yielded the contentious and non-binding Copenhagen Accord. The Accord was produced by 29 countries, but was principally drafted by the US along with BASIC members at the eleventh hour. It was rejected by countries including Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba for having left the majority of the nations out of the negotiating process.