China and India are committed to communicating their emissions reduction targets to the UN by the deadline imposed by the Copenhagen Conference in December, following talks in New Delhi 24 January. The four countries seen as key to any climate deal, Brazil, South Africa, China and India, have indicated that they will submit mitigation goals. But India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, confirmed in a letter to the president of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that the four continued to be bound only by the Kyoto Protocoll and not the Copenhagen meeting’s accord, which was not formally adopted by participants.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 25 January 2010.
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Tags: BASIC countries, Brazil, China, Copenhagen climae conference, emissions reductions, India, Kyoto Protocoll, Manmohan Singh, mitigation, South Africa