India Climate Meet Ahead Of Mexico To Push Tech Deal

The Nov 8-9 talks are aimed at clarifying rules on sharing future innovations and existing technologies involving contentious intellectual property rights (IPR) issues.

The talks will come just weeks before a major U.N. climate meeting in Mexico and are an attempt to breathe new life into global climate negotiations after last December's Copenhagen summit fell short of agreeing a treaty.

Brazil, South Africa, India and China - dubbed the BASIC group - were among more than 120 nations that agreed a non-binding deal in Copenhagen to limit a rise in average world temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) over pre-industrial times. Read the full report here.

Source: Krittivas Mukherjee, Reuters, New Delhi