India will be a “potential deal maker” at the upcoming UN conference on climate change this December, Ed Miliband, UK Climate Change Secretary, tells The Guardian:
“India has very stretching targets on solar energy, on renewable energy (…) it has big ambitions on energy efficiency (…) I think India wants to be a deal maker not a deal breaker in Copenhagen.”
The British minister’s hopes would probably be further encouraged by official statements in an Indian newspaper this week.
“We are (…) hoping to curb ten percent of the current level of emissions by 2012 and attract foreign investment worth 16 billion US dollars through over 1,000 greenhouse gas mitigation projects,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh tells The Economic Times (of India).
According to the newspaper, India wants to play a key role in getting agreement especially on three issues in Copenhagen: Forestry for mitigating climate change effects, Clean Development Mechanism and technology cooperation.
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