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The French Minister said there was the "real danger"
of putting all the developing countries together at Copenhagen
conference as there was "no homogeneity between all developing
countries and which is why I have distinguished between these
categories in the CJP," he added.

Asked about the inability of the European Union to
come forward with funds for fight against climate change,
Borloo said, "we have made a proposal which we just submitted
to India, where we have assessed the financial needs of
countries. We have done that country by country."
"We need to finance this (CJP) via a tax on financial
transactions. A tax that will generate in automatic way funds
up to USD 500 billion in next 20 years starting as early as
next year," he added.
Borloo said "true money and real commitments" for
Copenhagen's success and industrialised countries should come
up with "automatic, regular, annual, predictable and
additional funds for a CJP and for developing countries."
He added that countries like India would need a
different regime to benefit from world programme for renewable
energy or low carbon energy efficiency under the CJP.
On New Delhi's role at the Copenhagen Conference, he
said "voice of India will be decisive to get away from all the
arguments and negotiations and starting work for a positive
and shared project."
During his two-day visit, Borloo held meetings with
India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, Planning
Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Prime
Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Shyam Saran. PTI
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