Jairam Ramesh In Cancun With Mandate To Align With US

Before leaving for Mexico, environment minister Jairam Ramesh told HT his mandate was to “play a bridge" between the US and the others. He said any climate deal without the US on board would not be worth it and exhorted America to improve its offer of a 14% emission reduction target by 2020.
 

India will also allow verification of its domestic mitigation pledge — which is to reduce emission intensity for a unit of GDP by 20-25% by 2010 —  a big deviation from its stand at the 2009 Copenhagen summit. Read the full report here.

Source: Chetan Chauhan , Hindustan Times, New Delhi.