New Delhi:
As climate talks remain deadlocked, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Copenhagen on Thursday to pitch for a "balanced, equitable and ambitious outcome" of the UN climate summit which would see participation of over 110 heads of state or government.
Singh is expected to make an intervention at the plenary on Friday which would be addressed by Denmark Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon.
World leaders, including US President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, will also be at the plenary where they would try to reach an agreement to tackle global warming.
Another session of the heads of state is expected to take place in the post lunch session on Friday where the leaders are expected to find an "equitable outcome" on the 12-day climate talks.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Wednesday made it clear that India would neither agree to legally binding emission cuts nor a peaking year for its carbon emissions. Any international review of India's voluntary and domestically-funded mitigation actions would also be unacceptable, she said.
Rao gave enough hints that the climate talks would continue beyond Copenhagen and an agreement may be within reach before the next meeting of the Conference of Parties in
Mexico in 2010.