Govt working on climate blueprint to be submitted to UNFCCC

New Delhi, Jan 25 (PTI) Having agreed to accede to the
January 31 UN deadline, the Indian government has started
working on a blueprint detailing emission cut targets and
climate steps to be submitted under the Copenhagen Accord.
The BASIC bloc comprising India, China, South Africa and
Brazil had Sunday agreed to stick to the deadline to submit
the voluntary mitigation actions including carbon emission
cuts -- which would eventually lead to reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions -- to the UNFCCC.
"We have started work on the details we intend to
communicate to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC)," a senior official handling the climate change
division in the Indian Environment Ministry said.
Senior environment officials under the chairmanship of
Joint Secretary (Climate) J M Mausker held a meeting today to
discuss the strategy, a day after India announced its
intention to abide by January 31 deadline.
The official said India's submission will be same as its
official announcement at Copenhagen meet last year of bringing
down its carbon intensity -- amount of carbon emitted by per
unit of GDP -- by 20-25 per cent by 2020 on 2005 levels.
"Moreover, we have already initiated a series of
voluntary climate mitigation measures such as setting up a
group headed by economist Kirit Parikh for preparing as well
analysing the cost of low-carbon growth economy," the official
added. (MORE) PTI