
NEW DELHI: For the first time since the December climate change meet in Durban, environment ministers from the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - will come together in New Delhi this week. The meeting will be focused on working out a common and concerted strategy on the proposed new global climate change regime.
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iscussions on the proposed climate regime, or the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, will begin this year. At Durban, the countries agreed to have the post-2020 climate agreement in place by 2015. The first round of submissions for the new regime to the UNFCCC secretariat is due by February 28 .